Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the priest is better at pugilism than piety: he knocks out a professional boxer to uphold the honor of his town, and when the mayor and a local capitalist are at each other's throats, he quiets them with a bludgeon. Balanced with these feats of muscular Christianity are a pastoral interlude where Fernandel softens the mayor's stubborn son in a sequence that touches the strings of love and charity, and a less happy episode that requires the priest, the mayor and an old Fascist enemy each to down a ritual glass of castor...
...Yeah? This is Holden. Yeah, Marty. Hold it a sec." The muscular man with the hard eyes palms the phone. "I'll take those letters now, Miss Moller." The voice is hard, too, even sexy in a nasal way. Holden flips a Parliament into the corner of his mouth. "Marty? Shoot." Miss Moller brings the letters. Holden stands up suddenly and paces the floor, still listening. His brogues gleam richly on the broadloom, his tie is tensed into a merciless Yale knot. "Yeah, boy. Versteh. Versteh." He sits down, props the phone with his left shoulder, reads the letters...
Chavez conducted the big orchestra with broad-backed, muscular energy ("An orchestra is heavy on the wrists," he sighed, "like a man driving a huge span of horses attached to a heavy coach"). The music began with portentous thunder, answered by a piping call on the piccolo clarinet and a burbling of other woodwinds. Twice the movement plodded ponderously up harmonic mountains -and, triumphantly, gave glimpses of wide vistas on the other side. The second movement went along at a dashing, rustic gallop, while the third strutted with the bravado of a teen-ager unaware of being observed. Some...
...Muscular dystrophy, a progressive wasting of muscle power for which neither cause nor cure is known, has a way of attacking families. George Anderson of Metuchen, N.J. watched his two teen-age brothers die from the disease. Confined to a wheelchair since the age of seven, George nevertheless determined not to let the disease destroy his life. He studied at home, last June got a diploma from the Metuchen high school. He became a TV and Brooklyn Dodger fan, took up water-coloring. George fought so hard to live that his parents and his three sisters (none of whom seem...
...places. The hero, accordingly, is not "godlike Hector" or "great Achilles" but "soft Paris," whom even Helen called a coward. As the part is written, the "pest of Troy" can actually fight like a Trojan, and, as it is played by Jacques Sernas, the "form divine" is so gorgeously muscular that everybody will understand why that prissy old maid, Athena, flew into such a snit about...