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...been treated at Oxford. "The anti-Americanism of Oxford is complex and subtle, [but] the sting [has been] taken out of it by the fact that it is fashionable to have an American friend. Perhaps it is for the same reason that the courts used to find the muscular slow-witted barbarian from Asia a curiosity and a comfort to have about. The role is somewhat uncertain, but it is interesting...
...France and has never exhibited in the U.S. To some mid-20th Century eyes, Lorjou's Hunt might look like a wild burlesque of one by Delacroix. But in the mid-19th Century, Delacroix' own hunt pictures had seemed like parodies of Rubens'. Lorjou's muscular distortions and crackling, fiery colors were more emotional than artful, yet there was art in them as well...
Furuhashi, who weighs 162 lbs. and stands 5 ft. 7 in., has developed an imposing chest and tremendously muscular legs and arms. Every day, when he is not actually racing, he swims 4,000 to 10,000 meters. Hearing all this, a disgruntled U.S. swimmer said: "You call that amateur swimming? It sounds to me like professionalism...
...talk as well as to write, Dr. Greene believes that possibly "we expect too much of boys ... in their early years. Our expectations that they should attain the same level of speech performance as girls of like age, when they have not attained the same level of nervous and muscular maturation, may often result in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, and cause [speech disorders...
Last fortnight, tourists who went out to Xochimilco found the boats untended, their flowers wilted. An old boatman named Cecilio ("Negro") Pacheco explained why. He leaned over the side of his canoa, plunged a muscular arm into the murky water. "Look," he said. His arm caused a sucking sound as it went up to the elbow in thick mud. "Who wants to ride around Xochimilco...