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...novel one. The closing verses, which provided Johnson with material for a fine passage ("Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? ..."), seems in the Lowell version to be more faithful to the original sprit. Juvenal, in a rate constructive comment, here urges man to pray for mens sana in corpore sano. Johnson's soaring close inspires, but is un-Juvenlia on that account. Lowell's tone is simpler, lightly ironic, and a little irritated: just right...
Curtis' aim was to market Raquel as a cool chick who knows her own mind -a sort of mens sana in corpore magnified. He trained her well. She told reporters that mother had given her a copy of The Carpetbaggers with the query, "Tell me if that really is the kind of career you want." Raquel said yes, with certain exceptions, of course. "I made up my mind," she told the newsmen, "that Hollywood is not a place filled with sinister characters lurking in half-shadows waiting to seduce virgins . . ." Reporters found this so refreshing that they didn...
...army from 70,000 men to 40,000, withdrawing from exposed positions in eastern and northern Yemen, and tightening his hold on the parts of Yemen that really count: the Red Sea coastline; a northern boundary that takes in the well-fortified town of Hajja and the capital, Sana; and the border with the South Arabian Federation, which becomes independent in 1968 and offers a tempting target for further Nasser expansion toward Aden...
...Broadway and in the film-she was a monadnock of sex as "Stupefyin' Jones." In The Marriage-Go-Round, she won a Tony award for standing on the stage dressed only in a towel and begging Charles Boyer, as a brilliant professor, to unite his mighty mens sana with her massive corpore sano. She brings the same sort of ingenuous sexuality to her role as a TV robot, managing the difficult trick of being comical and at the same time alluring enough to start the Colossus of Rhodes off his blocks...
...teacher of Van Cliburn, Rosina Lhevinne. By encouraging the festivaliant to start the day with a brisk half-hour hike up the Roaring Fork or Castle Creek for a couple of hours of trout fishing in crystalline, pine-shaded streams, Aspen fosters one of the great classic ideals: Mens sana in corpore sano...