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...gyms where they devote themselves to sculpting their lats and pects and stuff to preposterous perfection. When they are not tugging and hauling with an infinite variety of weights and pulleys, they are perfecting their posing routines for the contests with which they mark off their years, trying to psych themselves up and -gently, slyly -psych their opponents out for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Delicate Beefcake Ballet | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...morning of his first exam, the sloth finally lifted himself from his chair and began to stumble northward toward Harvard Yard. He arrived there on time, but misread the location for Physics 907 on the exam schedule, unwittingly plopping himself down in the exam room for Adolescent Psych. Before a proctor could hand him a copy of the exam, the sloth was furiously scribbling quadratic equations into his blue book. But soon he lost patience, and digressed to a metaphysical discussion of his sexual malaise and acne problems...

Author: By Robert Ullmann, | Title: Fables of Fair Harvard | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Until Saturday, the stickwomen had spent the season surprising people, going into games as the underdog only to psych themselves to a sky-high level and pull off the upset...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Tigers Claw Radcliffe Dreams | 10/27/1976 | See Source »

...want to, anyway." If she didn't seize the opportunity to be with her boyfriend at these late hours, she says, she would never see him. Between the hours of 9 in the morning and dinner, Donald busies himself with his Gov courses, and she with her Psych...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: A Long Night's Journey Into Day | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

...Brookline is a psych-out course," he explained. "I think that people tended to get discouraged and when that happens you tend to balloon. The rough is as high as a cornfield. If you miss the green a little bit it's like your ball...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Link Up in Opener | 10/2/1976 | See Source »

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