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...Chuck McKinley was its brightest star. Compact (5 ft. 8 in., 160 Ibs.) and muscular, McKinley plays tennis with an astounding lack of grace. He leaps, he lunges, he scrambles, he slides, he falls, he dives, he skins his elbows and knees, and he flails at the ball as if he were clubbing a rat. His nerves are as taut as the strings of his racket. "Oh, Charley, you missed that one," he hollers after a bad shot, and he drew a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association when he angrily heaved his racket into the stands...
...hysterectomy or have her ovarian tubes tied off after the third caesarean, say the D.C. doctors, is a fallacy dating back a quarter-century, when the incision for the delivery was made vertically through the upper part of the wall of the womb. This is the thickest, most muscular part, and is also closest to other vital organs that may be damaged in the operation...
Christopher Plantin, a leather tooler of Antwerp, was making a late delivery one night in 1555 when thugs set upon him with swords and deeply pierced his shoulder. Thus crippled, Plantin had to turn to an easier and less muscular occupation; having made many leather bindings for books, he chose publishing. The same year he printed a small volume on etiquette called The Instruction of a Girl of Noble Birth-the first publication of what was to become the greatest printing house of the 16th and ryth centuries...
Unlike many a modern intellectual. Arnold did not retreat into ivory-tower es-theticism. sour stoical isolation or epicurean sensuality. Instead, in the muscular Victorian fashion, he drowned his sorrow at his loss of faith by working to keep alive a critical spirit in an age of complacency. Though his purpose was solemn. Arnold often indulged in levity that disturbed the specific gravity of fellow Victorians-and led to a cartoon by irreverent Max Beerbohm (see cut') mocking them both. The cultural history of man, he wrote in Culture and Anarchy, his most famous essay, is an interplay between...
...making a phrase stick. After Arnold so summed him up, Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley has indelibly remained "an ineffectual angel." His fellow Britons Arnold divided into three groups: "the Barbarians [aristocracy], the Populace and the Philistines," an epithet which for Arnold summed up all the sins of the muscular, muddleheaded, self-satisfied British middle class. He takes a sly dig at the scarcity of inquiring minds in England by noting that Britain is the only country in the world where curiosity, far from being a prized intellectual quality, means merely the unpleasant urge to nose into other people...