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...exchange mistresses, money, and a spiritual malaise which the author believes to be at the root of Europe's despair. Most of all, they share a common paralysis of will power in the face of impending disaster. Their lives, Sartre writes, "had ... a kind of insistent futility, a smell of dust and violets...
...familiar: the dead air, the unnatural darkness, the faint smell of dust. People in Woodward and the other towns of the pan-flat Oklahoma-Texas wheat belt (which lost over 150 citizens in the disastrous twister of April 9) shivered when they saw the new storm coming last week. They assumed that they were still on the main line and dived for storm cellars. They were understandably hasty-the twister struck 40 miles south in tiny Leedey, tore it apart and killed...
...bright with embroidered cushions, painted lacquer ware and bucolic scrolls, Chen seems more like a retired and fastidious professor than the politician he is. At dinner, in accordance with the ceremonial niceties of cheng, he likes to discourse on the threefold appeal of Chinese cuisine-color, for the eye; smell, for the nostrils; taste, for the tongue. He is getting plump, is 20 pounds heavier than when he battled Communists. He is a family man. Recently, while his hospitable, bespectacled wife and four sprouting children looked on, Chen displayed a bit of simple Western technology he had learned. Puffing...
Like the charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers best with each, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected, and tired...
...bottles are filled with tens of millions of francs worth of extracts, which white-robed girls dribble carefully into flacons. The real secret is to use more natural than synthetic musk. As Jeanpierre Guerlain explains: "Go into a Montmartre bar around midnight-the air reeks with synthetic musk. It smells of tarts. It takes real musk to make a woman smell like a lady...