Word: ectomorphs
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...DOLITTLE. The Hugh Lofting children's classic about a pleasingly plump physician who talks to animals has been transformed into a film about a lean ectomorph (Rex Harrison) who treats them with all the intimacy of a Harley Street internist ordering up a set of X rays...
...books conveyed an inimitably whimsical presence of animals and the funny little man who could talk to them. In this musical movie, Dr. Dolittle's character, as well as his physiognomy, has gone astray. The pleasingly plump physician has been transformed into a lean, saturnine ectomorph (Rex Harrison) who treats his furred and feathered charges with all the intimacy of a Harley Street internist ordering a set of X rays. Surrounding him, however, is a brilliant supporting cast: pigs, dogs, giraffes, elephants, hippos, and a multilingual parrot...
Evidently, this is another attempt to assert the utter superiority and distinctiveness of the ectomorph--in Harvard's world, at any rate. Everyone knows that the seats in the Stadium, at New Lecture Hall, and at the Indoor Athletic Building were designed solely to accommodate ectomorphs. Now it appears that the style sultans in New York and London are making clothes expressly designed to shrink the masculine form...
...order to secure "greater harmony of interests between the male leads," try-out directors have asked for one mesomorph, one endomorph, and one ectomorph to play the three leading men. Barbara Pitts '52, director of the show, hastened to add that a few typical extroverts and people of any size and shape are perfectly eligible for the male chorus...
...unhappy ectomorph announced that before the publication of Professor Hooton's masterpiece, he had been comfortably enjoying the nick-name of "Slim." But now he found himself expected to answer to the unseemly appellation of "the erratic ecto...