Word: fats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article about him in Cahiers du Communisme. The meeting in Poland seemed to have decided that the mostly clandestine connection between Communist parties was not close enough. Mistakes had been made. Italian and Yugoslav Communist parties had differed over the Trieste issue. Worse, the parties in France and Italy, fat with postwar recruits, showed a certain sluggishness in jumping to the Moscow whip. Public adherence to an international "Information Bureau" would make deviation more difficult...
Back in the dark, drums were softly brushed. Nellie struck a big fat chord. Underneath the piano, her gilded sandal began to slap the floor. And with a pixyish glance up into the smoke-filled spotlight, Nellie was on her way. From behind a shiny gold tooth came a big voice with dust in it-singing Hurry On Down, a husky tune Nellie herself wrote. First, her piano accompanied her with knotty background chords while she sang; on a second chorus, she accompanied the piano (which she plays in a style reminiscent of the musician she most admires, Duke Ellington...
...Fat people, to Dr. Bruch (5 ft. 8 in., 145 lbs.), are not the placid and jolly folks they are generally reputed. Their good humor, she thinks, is a pose-a thin veneer over a greedy, irritable personality that will not brook any denial of its wants...
...Many fat girls," says Dr. Bruch, "though outwardly very concerned about not getting married, nevertheless persist in remaining fat because it is a protection against men and sex and the responsibilities of womanhood, which they dread even more than the disgrace of being fat." Even so, admits Dr. Bruch, these defenses in depth don't always work: in every crowd there is at least one man who prefers fat girls...
...only really effective cure for fatness, Dr. Bruch believes, is not in exercise or diets (although the "pure mechanical reducing," now popular in the reducing academies, is sometimes surprisingly successful, but only when the students have enough emotional control of themselves to go through with the course). Fatness, she says, is a psychosomatic condition; the blubbery patient belongs not in the gym, but in a psychiatrist's office. She implies that, with modern insight and sympathetic doctors, such well-known fatties as St. Thomas Aquinas, William Howard Taft, Hermann Goring or Charles the Fat might have been skinnies...