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...erotic art was a category of art, accepted as such in China and India. Boucher's paintings for Louis XV were intended to arouse Louis XV, and by all accounts they did. I have been sexually aroused reading D. H. Lawrence, reading Ovid and reading of Hero and Leander. And it was Sir Kenneth Clark who said that anyone who paints a nude with no desire to produce an erotic effect is a hypocrite...
...wasn't that Harvard failed to produce," said one observer later. "That Leander boat is damn tough, and they had a title to defend. Harvard wasn't overconfident. Maybe American rowing fans were...
Saturday morning Leander met Harvard, and after a brief early lead, the Crimson rowed the remainder of the race from behind. Harvard stroked smoothly and hard, Leander, an experienced crew well known in England, stroked beautifully and won by two and a half lengths...
Several hours later, after Penn had beaten MIT to reach the finals, Leander successfully defended that title against Penn. It defended it powerfully, driving to an early lead. It defended it fiercely, repeatedly holding off a Penn cadence that climbed from 35 to 38 to 41 in a brutal effort to make up an alarming deficit. And it defended it convincingly, mercilessly drubbing a Penn freshman boat that outweighed Leander by ten pounds per man, winning by a whopping three lengths over the mile and five-sixteenths course...
...unheralded Yale four dumped Penn in the first round. The freshman boat was humiliated by Leander. And in the finals of the Grand Challenge Cup, Henley's premier event, the Quaker varsity found that there is not one crew that it cannot beat, but at least two. Einheit Dresden, a crack East German crew, practiced entirely on their home rivers in preparation for Henley...