Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natives trekked as much as two days to the polling stations. In the Highlands, many had greased themselves with pig fat as protection against the cold, and for the occasion wore bird-of-paradise plumes, as well as their usual garb of bark or grass. Among the voters were two tribes discovered only in the past six months (another clan of 83 natives, who saw their first white man just two weeks ago, made it clear they wanted no outside interference). The chief of still another tribe, somewhat bemused by the issues, said that he would take two self-governments...
EVERY Administration has its in-house contact with big business-a staff aide or presidential intimate to hear the complaints, plead the cases and soothe the ruffled feathers of the fat cats and Pooh-Bahs. The position naturally invites allegations of mollycoddling business at public expense. But few who have held it have proved more controversial or more subject to charges of favoritism than Peter Flanigan, Richard Nixon's "Mr. Fixit" when it comes to powerful business interests...
...Discontents-by comparison with these masterpieces, even the best among today's Madness Revolution artists seem dilettantes. But the new madness has taken the visions in hell of the masters and vulgarized them as chic. Perhaps the change was inevitable. Plato's charioteer had become the fat cat in the back of the limousine. Reason too often has dried up into "common sense" and become a cover word for intellectual timidity. The failure of conventionalized reason to explain two world wars or Jungian voyages into the unconscious must seem tragic as well as absurd. The result is that...
Ethology-as any schoolboy will tell you with suitable grunts and scratchings-embraces the study of the beast in man. It is the science of atavisms. Desmond Morris is the former London zookeeper who, recognizing this fat ruminant in the wild, turned hunter. He stampeded his quarry over the cliff in The Naked...
...proved in last December's 4-4 tie on B.U.'s home ice, but the Terriers' well-oiled power play (and Harvard's lack of one) are enough to make the Crimson the underdog. Harvard goalie Joe Bertagna will not be able to afford his habit of leaving fat rebounds for the opposition, and the defense will have to tighten up its recent sloppy play if Harvard is to stay with B.U. tonight...