Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stock by giving him the Commonwealth and Colonies shadow portfolio. That gives Maudling responsibility for Rhodesia-a fulcrum that any oppositionist should be able to wield to advantage. If Heath and Maudling together can put the full weight of Tory leadership into the opposition, Wilson's plump majority could be thinned in ensuing by-elections. If not, Heath might well be supplanted by Maudling as the Conservatives' leader...
...JULIUS BAKER, 52, first flutist of the New York Philharmonic, last week played the intricate trills in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah as casually as another man might whistle for a taxi. A plump, dapper, matter-of-fact chap who looks and acts like a prosperous dentist, Baker is short on temperament but long on technique. He is the supreme mechanic of his instrument, and he produces what is surely the most glorious tone that ever came out of a flute: big, round, cool, white, radiant as a September moon...
...eyes, it is all part of a gigantic Franco-American plot. As the blonde, plump princess has been telling her 22,000 relatives ever since she set up the union in 1957, their common ancestor was one of 13 children of a poor Limousin farmer who fought with the Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution and was rewarded by a grateful Continental Congress with a huge farm in Vermont. He multiplied his fortune by 1) discovering oil in Vermont, 2) marrying a Creole beauty whose Louisiana father left them his gold mines, and 3) buying Chicago slaughterhouses. After...
...British Ambassador to The Hague for 600 florins. A surviving letter, signed by the artist, describes the work as "Daniel amidst many lions, which are taken from the life. Original, the whole by my hand." Rubens is often dismissed as a rote fabricator of effulgent flesh, of plump nudes and pillared panoramas of bestial warriors. His Daniel is, otherwise, dramatic proof of the baroque at its turbulent best...
...another historian, I commend you for honoring the craft with your cover story on Arthur Schlesinger [Dec. 17]. I, too, would plump for activism because of its merit to the interpreter of history. However, there is a factor in such associations that Schlesinger fails to emphasize. That is the gracious receptivity of men such as his President and my Governor to interloping historians. Access is the key to effective political participation and observation, and Kennedy and Scranton have literally opened their offices to public scrutiny...