Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would come from philanthropy and endowment incomes ($500 million to $1 billion yearly if prosperity continues) and stringent college economizing. Items: bigger classes, fewer "small" courses, using existing classrooms for longer hours, more use of TV lecturing. There is no reason, Economist Harris believes, why economies cannot cut the fat from college spending and yield another $1 billion to $2 billion annually. If the U.S. follows his budget, he suggested, it can easily find $7 billion a year to pay for its booming colleges...
...Greyhound buses a day clank up the mountain road carrying the marks (Harrah refunds $6 of the $7.45 fare). Almost singlehanded, greying Bill Harrah has put the grey-flannel org man on top of a world that once belonged to the flashy lone wolf with fast fingers and a fat...
Author Panova shares Boris Pasternak's poetic affection for the Russian land. Serioja races across "black velvet ploughland" or watches the white-snow cling like "fat white caterpillars on the branches of the trees." Toward novel's end, the boy tastes bitter desolation when his stepfather is assigned a new post, and it appears that Serioja's health may force the family to leave him behind. At the last moment, seeing that parting will destroy the child, the stepfather scoops him up in a happy ending that is movingly true to the essential spirit of the book...
...Tunicata are thin, lithe animals that move about the sea in their youth, investigating their surroundings. Then one day they grow fat, settle down on the ocean floor--never to move again--and reproduce...
With the exception of Julius Novick's article in extended praise of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, and Paul Riesman's essay on "mentally fat professors," the quality of the writing in the first issue of Gadfly is surpassed only by a mediocre Gen. Ed. essay. Also included in this issue is a short piece in French, which, after reading, I leave for the more esoteric to interpret, and an enigmatic scrawl on art and Ezra Pound written for a very special "in-group" to discuss over their Turkish tea at the Cafe Mozart...