Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...higher education will enroll 4,300,000 students (about 2,545,600 public, 1,754,000 private), up a plump 7½% Postwar Babies. The sharp rise in all U.S. high school enrollment is a consequence of the high 1945-47 birth rate, which colleges in turn will start feeling in 1965. Colleges are now mainly confronted with rising ambition: from 14.6% in 1950. the proportion of Americans aged 18-24 seeking degrees reached 23.1% in 1960 (and 38% in California, the top state in college enrollment). All this fuels a rise in the median number of school years completed...
...ministers-to follow his lead and give way to what was obviously the popular will. They wanted to know in advance one key fact: Who's going to be the Premier? The man most agreeable to Kubitschek and to Brazil's key governors was Bahia's plump and placid but steely-nerved Governor Juracy Magalhaes, a reserve general, and head of Brazil's major conservative party. Said Juracy: "If you want me to serve, and there is no one else, I will...
...herself to him. The baron is a madcap giant of a hussar, a Homeric drinker and eater, an impenitent gambler, an indefatigable skirt chaser. Ippolita, to whom purse strings are the only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like a ragpicker; the baron makes her buy the latest imported fineries. Ippolita doles out fourth-rate wine to the servants in "a quantity congruous for Christians of base extraction." The baron invites them to lap up casks of vintage Vaiano. When the baron goes...
...accept the finished statue, a reclining nude. Even when Maillol found a sympathetic patron, Count Harry Kessler, art adviser to the German Kaiser, it turned out badly. World War I broke out, and the French angrily concluded that Maillol was pro-German, dismissed his beautiful nudes as so many plump Fräulein...
...majestic beard turned white; his wiry body became stooped. Younger, placid and broad-hipped models came to pose and serve as inspiration. "I am inconsolable," he once said, "not to have seen the figures of all the women of my native province." It was his last favorite model, plump Dina Vierny, who tracked down every work the master did and was largely responsible for assembling the current show. Now in her 40s, she still refers to Maillol as "le patron," vows "he will some day have a museum of his own, even if I have to build it with...