Word: strenuous
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...exercise is lifting a glass at the end of a tense day. For them, a word must be said about the tendency to overdo: after the last glass of Pommard with the blue cheese, it is not wise to rise too rapidly from the chair. That might be too strenuous...
Free-Floating Libido. In the four issues that have appeared to date, one article examines the phenomenon of moviemaking at U.C.L.A. and speculates that many of the students turn to movies because they have found the literary life too strenuous. "Hunched over a Movieola like some anchoritic lama at his prayer wheel," says the piece, "the moviemaker imagines the medium an ideal outlet for free-floating artiness or supererogatory libidinousness. There was in fact at least one instance in which a director became so enamored of his leading lady that he wrote a nude love scene into the script...
...article on U.S.-Japanese affairs in a 1960 issue of Foreign Affairs brought him to Kennedy's attention, and despite the strenuous protests of his wife, he accepted the Ambassador's nomination. It was a popular appointment among the Japanese. "No simple professor could help but be gratified to find that he had suddenly been transformed into your Excellency. My wife and I were like movie stars. Everyone recognized...
...must be seen on their intrinsic merits. This surely will not mean a total retreat from the world, that enchanting idyll of no known past. But here and there disengagements from some present undertakings should not a priori be foreclosed. On the other hand, reconsiderations may issue in more strenuous efforts at openness, particularly in the policy sciences and their research centers. Conscious receptivity to destructive criticism of conventionally accepted limits n policy can after all well be defended on both intellectual and pragmatic grounds...
...football players a drink called "Gatorade," which tastes like weak lemonade but is really a combination of glucose, sodium phosphate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, calcium cyclamate and citric acid. It was designed by scientists to replenish the chemicals that are burned up by the human body during strenuous exercise...