[T]he chunky Mr. Ackerman took to the stage. First he told fat jokes. . . . I'm not fat. I'm gravitationally challenged.

Insarov's and Elena's idealism is not unnaturally coloured with Quixotic elements which the realists of the sixties themselves would have disowned.

Buff body coated with white outside ; hard; 4.05 diam.; ornamented with vertical panels of burnished lattice lines, two burnished girthlines on the bulge, and one terminating the panels of lattice lines.

He has no autarkia, or self-sufficingness—no ichheit, or I-hood, as the Germans would say.