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...their physical nature, angels were traditionally said to assume bodies only as needed to carry out a task. This meant that they had no gender, despite the sentimental Victorian image of the pale virgin with wings. Milton's angels, however, among the most vivid in literature, were robust figures who ate and drank freely. Raphael, in fact, "with a smile that glowed/ Celestial rosy red," blushingly explained to Adam and Eve how angels make love, "Easier than air with air, if spirits embrace, / Total they mix, union of pure with pure/ Desiring...
...Core also has a departmental affiliation. It's hypocritical to say that a Core course teaches what the Committee on the Core Program calls "major approaches to knowledge" any better than a departmental course. The faculty is the same for both, and the subject matter can only be more robust in a departmental course...
...House dining hall for Sunday brunch. Our gathering was of old comrades, one of whom had recently returned from adventures on the Continent, and another of whom had trekked to the river's edge from distant Cabot House. Over cerebral, though spirited conversation, we prepared a tasty meal of robust proportions from food ordinarily available on the salad bar. Desirous of exploiting the fresh ingredients provisioned by the helpful corps of dining hall staff, we selected simple comestibles. Each recipe had a story. One had been found scrawled in the margins of a goodly great-aunt's tattered copy...
...same downsizing that has sharply pared union membership has also created new receptiveness for union organizers among surviving employees who find themselves overworked and stressed out. Labor productivity, which measures the hourly output of workers, grew a robust 3.2% last year, the best showing since 1964, while paychecks got smaller. In inflation-adjusted dollars, average weekly wages have fallen from $272 10 years ago to $254 today. Adding insult to injury, the gap between executive compensation and ordinary pay has been rapidly widening. According to compensation expert Graef Crystal, the earnings of chief executive officers of major corporations have zoomed...
Psychologist Ofshe is particularly disdainful of the concept of what he calls "robust" repression: the instantaneous submergence of any memory of sexual abuse. Recovered-memory therapists, he says, "have invented a mechanism that supposedly causes a child's awareness of sexual assault to be driven entirely from consciousness." According to these therapists, Ofshe explains, "there is no limit to the number of traumatic events that can be repressed, and no limit to the length of time over which the series of events can occur." Belief in robust repression, he concludes, "can be found only on the lunatic fringes of science...