Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everywhere there are Danakil graves," cabled Griggs, "small mounds covered with rocks to prevent hungry hyenas from digging up and devouring the bodies. Some Danakil dead have been found with dirt in their stomachs, evidence that they have tried to lick the ground for moisture. Only the vultures are fat...
Well the runway lies ahead like a great false dawn, Fat lady, big mama, Missy Bimbo sits in her chair and yawns, And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffin 'popcorn And the midget licks his fingers and suffers Missy Bimbo's scorn Circus town's been born...
...Fat, untidy and crapulous, Švejk is a natural disaster as a soldier. He drinks anything that is not nailed down, eats anything that is not moving, and flummoxes disciplinarians and exhorters by admitting everything instantly-always at great length and with illustrations. Hašek's Švejk was a Czech and like most Czechs was a reluctant subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, especially after World War I broke out. When Svejk is drafted despite his rheumatic legs, he borrows a wheelchair, crutches and an old army cap, gets himself wheeled through the streets of Prague...
...problem at Harvard. The problem here, as with other situations at Harvard, he says, is that there is no overall guiding precept, no moral basis underlying University policy. This lack of unified standards enables the conservative tenured Faculty members--who he occasionally refers to as Harvard's "fat cats"--to exercise undue power over educational policy...
According to his friends, Kiely is most concerned that the scrutiny he has been subjected to will only strengthen the hands of these "fat cats," who care little about anything besides their own research and personal comfort. He fears the criticism he has received will discourage any other Faculty members from participating in undergraduate life and concerning themselves with undergraduate education...