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...turreted granite buildings were a little too obviously intended for educating young females. The UNO council chamber had been built in only 15 days and still looked, somehow, as though an irascible electrician might crawl out from beneath a desk. There were blackboards in the halls, a strong smell of paint in the air, and neat signs which still read "Corrective Room" and "Meditation Chapel." And, like most other newcomers to New York City, UNO had been engulfed as well as accepted...
Mostly they thought of the life they had left behind them: "I go over each time we were with each other . . . the never-to-be-forgotten weekend spent at Caroline's . . . the walks in the woods, enjoying the fresh air and the smell of growing things...
...will find in New York that] what the advance advertising did not mention was the ugliness of the fire escapes ... or the noise and grime and smell of the subways, or the scores of desolately unbeautiful cross-town streets. . . . What is true of New York is true of America itself. All of it together, the splendid, shoddy, calm and frenzied are one thing...
...outskirts of the city, we put down the litter and turn back to fetch Father Superior. Most of the ruins are by now burned out. One of us remarks that the pungent smell reminds him of burned corpses...
...strike. Chimneys that usually belch clouds of smoke emit only a weak little puff now & then. The resounding thud of a sledge on an animal's forehead is missing. No blood runs on killing floors. The lonesome watchmen make their rounds in silence. To leeward there is no smell...