Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Civil War approaches, welcomed with fat confidence. Young Charles becomes a colonel. Inflation comes, hard times and hunger. The Yankees come, with pillage and emancipation. Defeat comes. At last the family scatters - to the grave, to New Or leans with a few pickings from their once sumptuous possessions, young Charles to New York and a distinguished career at the bar. Throughout - and here is the final secret of the book's fascination - they show them selves at once courageous and uncomprehending, walking upright and blind into doom...
WHEN JOE RESTIC arrived in Cambridge last fall, fresh from the wide-open Canadian pros with a fat playbook full of tricks under his arm, many Harvard fans, thoroughly bored by a decade of John Yovicsin's dive, sweep, incompletion offense, breathed a sigh of relief. But their relief soon became boredom again in the opening game, as Restic's man-in-motion, multiple set offense produced a paltry ten points against a Holy Cross team that had not won a game in almost three years (a performance that looked even more pathetic three weeks later when Syracuse stepped...
When it comes to outdoor sculpture, Philadelphia is Fat City. A 1959 ordinance requires that 1% of the cost of all public buildings be devoted to sculptural adornment. Presently ready for casting in Milan is a 36-ft.-high bronze by Jacques Lipchitz called Government of the People, on which the city has already spent $122,500. But when Philadelphia's law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo heard that the casting and shipping would come to another $177,000, the news turned him into an instant art critic. "Government of the People," said Rizzo, "looks like some plasterer dropped...
...extremely intricate, perhaps even brilliant, perceptions into the essays of John Ruskin and Walter Pater to tell you about. Big deal. Has any professor ever made you feel like dancing? made you happy or sad? talked to you as though you were a human being with feelings and problems? Fat chance. Maybe if you're married to one. Maybe. Most of the time they just treat you to their individual ideas on some topic, presented in the scintillating lecture format; on a rare occasion, their ideas may even be more interesting and useful than your own, depending on which...
...UNCTAD). In all, 3,000 delegates from 142 countries met for five weeks in a new $10 million building, which had been specially put up for them by the nearly broke Chilean government. They listened to 1,120 hours of speeches, mostly impassioned pleas for preferential trade deals and fat increases in foreign aid for developing countries. But they made no real progress. As one weary U.S. delegate explained: "The conference presumes that the U.S. is a giant cow and that there should be a teat for every developing country in the world...