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...cylinder is coaxed into burning by the ignition of an adjoining layer of much richer fuel. To accomplish this stratification of fuel, Honda's engineers added a small combustion chamber, to accommodate the richer mixture, at the top of each cylinder (see diagram); the chamber contains the spark plug and is equipped with its own intake valve...
Spreading Flame. With that addition, the cycle of the stratified-charge engine remains quite similar to the sequence in ordinary internal combustion engines: 1) As the piston descends, a rich fuel mix from one carburetor is injected into the small combustion chamber near the spark plug. A leaner mixture, from a second carburetor, is squirted into the rest of the cylinder. 2) Moving up, the piston compresses both charges, pushing back most of the richer mix that may have seeped into the main chamber. 3) The spark plug fires the rich mix. 4) The rich, burning mix ignites the adjoining...
Unlike some of the candidates for the deanship, Rosovsky's conduct then did not give him the personal notoriety that would make his appointment a spark to rekindle those feelings. In chairing the committee that recommended the foundation of the Afro-American Studies Department, Rosovsky showed the ability to adjust to changing conditions in the University...
...does the reader. "Literature of sentiment and emotion," Muriel Spark recently predicted, "must go. It cheats us into a sense of involvement with life and society." In its place she then proposed an art of "satire and ridicule." Hothouse, presumably, is an example. But precisely because it is lifeless, few people will worry about whatever the book is trying to say. Various possibilities exist. Time past is time present. Late, rich middle age, especially in Manhattan, is a kind of death in life -sterile, futile, hopelessly preoccupied with the past, most depressingly so when earlier years have been marked...
Even Muriel Spark's set-piece satire is only sporadically rich enough to stir interest, most visibly at a production of Peter Pan staged by Elsa and Paul's homosexual son, in which all the parts are played by people over 60. "It's sick!" members of the audience shout. A collective American voice replies, "Sick is real! Sick is interesting!" Not all that interesting, though. It is far easier in fiction than in life to distinguish the quick from the dead...