Roosevelt, an exponent of "the strenuous life," loved football, for its machismo and for bringing a manly man activity to college campuses.
At first I thought the moans and yelps were a cat fight, but then I thought, no, this was the sound of strenuous, cinematic love-making.
For all the spirited comedy of "As You Like It," true love arrives only after strenuous study and emotional hardship.
His every activity is brutal, strenuous, sucky: "I sucked love like phthalo green sucks light," he says of himself with Marlene, and Hugh reports, "Butcher bought a plastic wading pool and then constructed a metal crossbar and once this was bolted to the floor we would drag the canvas like a reluctant beast through a cattle dip of paint".
** His every activity is brutal, strenuous, sucky: "I sucked love like phthalo green sucks light," he says of himself with Marlene, and Hugh reports, "Butcher bought a plastic wading pool and then constructed a metal crossbar and once this was bolted to the floor we would drag the canvas like a reluctant beast through a cattle dip of paint".
However despite these benefits, the fact my workplace is badly managed, isolated and I have recently had to provide maternity cover for one of my seniors makes flicking back and forth between my job and what I love a strenuous process.
Theodore Roosevelt whose love of the "strenuous life" was merely a microcosm of America's industrial might and potential to affect the geopolitical balance of the planet for the better.
The results, with their twisted, strenuous grace, aren't easy to love, but they are invariably interesting.
It chronicled the fate of star-crossed lovers, the highborn Oliver Barrett IV and the working-class Jennifer Cavilleri, who meet at Harvard, fall in love and, over the strenuous objections of Oliver's family, marry.
