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...with the pleasures of life learned from the Moors. Bullfighting became a sport shared by all the populace, and even an elementary form of baseball emerged. The cult of courtly love crossed the Pyrenees, and was adopted by Moorish lords, who in song and painting boasted of their prowess, both as warriors and lovers. Mudéjar art, produced by Moslems living under Christian rule, flourished. So did medicine and many of Spain's great universities date from this fruitful period. When in 1492, the year Columbus discovered the New World, the last Moors, as well as the Jews...
Hillier, too, has his private Gethsemane. A nominal Catholic, like the scientist, he plays the espionage game as a man who has withdrawn from both sides-a disillusioned and cynical neutralist, proud of his prowess in bed and at table. Aboard a ship bearing him to a Russian Black Sea port, Hillier gorges himself at both. In a stateroom, he literally tangles with an extraordinarily supple Indian girl who is an expert at the extracurricular forms to which the Kama Sutra is only a primer. In the dining room, an eating contest with another passenger becomes the most hilarious...
...campuses in 1964. Unlike Golden Curtain, this book makes no attempt to be constructive, and indeed is patently false in many respects. Aitken and Beloff find it typically American for college coeds to approach perfect strangers with plowing descriptions of Negro sexual prowess (which, of course, is much greater than white). The authors also leave the impression that many U.S. churches use conveyor belts to serve worshipers with iced wine and neatly wrapped wafers during Communion service. Short Walk is only a youthful indiscretion, like roof climbing or too much sherry at an Old Lit dinner, but it may also...
...pennant, the Dodgers beat out San Francisco and Pittsburgh, teams whose hitting prowess make the Orioles look like Brian London...
...letter of September 26 attacking Phi Beta Kappa's final election procedures, Mr. Charles R. Chester '66 indulges in the pitiable fallacy of supposing that a student's average course grade, his general examination grade, and his thesis grade are "objective" measures of his academic prowess in some more apodictic sense than the common judgment, based on all that information and more, of the 24 of his peers and several faculty members who assist at the June election meetings...