Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doctors have long known that at this later stage, the nerve fibers controlling the affected muscles have lost much of their protective sheathing (like insulation on electric wires), a fat-protein combination called myelin. But how to explain the early, on-again-off-again phase of the disease? The question seems particularly urgent because a satisfactory answer might lead into new areas of research and, hopefully, toward control or even prevention...
...Expert. De Angelis hardly looks the part of an international swindler. Short, fat and 50, he wears pearl grey ties and a perpetual look of hurt innocence. Although he pleaded guilty, he continues to blame his troubles on jealous competitors ("Powerful forces were working against me") and on the Department of Agriculture ("They called me a guinea bastard down there...
...broke. But the court pried out of him the fact that he had $500,000 in a numbered Swiss bank account; this cache has been turned over to his bankruptcy trustees. How much more Tino may have stashed away is a secret locked in the nimble brain of the fat man who fooled everybody. If he values his freedom highly, he may, under the terms of his sentence, still tell quite a story...
Under a pretentiously artsy façade, Newley slams the audience with a symbol as if it were a clown's pig bladder. Cocky is pitted against an autocratic upper-class fat cat in a dented top hat named Sir (Cyril Ritchard). Sir makes the rules for the Game of Life, which is played rather like circular hopscotch on a huge disk at stage center. Any time Cocky manages two jumps forward, he is forced to go three jumps or more backward. Arbitrary? Unreasonable? One understands-the game is hopelessly rigged...
Eddie Amsel is fat, clever, half-Jewish. Walter Matern is lean, brooding, half-heartedly Aryan. Matern protects Amsel when other schoolboys mock his fatness or yell "sheeny." He cannot tell why he does this, nor why sometimes he squirms away from his obligation to protect and yells "sheeny" himself. The unbreakable and intolerable bond between the two friends-one not wholly a Jew or admirable, the other not wholly an Aryan or despicable-gives the book its symbolic structure...