The reason, researchers have learned, is that the sons of young lovers are much more likely to turn out to be virile studs.
To refuse admittance to every virile immigrant, healthy of body and mind, would be not only un-American and un-Christian, but fatal to our fullest growth and prosperity, fatal to our ideals, fatal to democracy.
Among things recorded were the size and shape of the vulva and clitoris, the length of the vagina, the size of the teats, the presence or absence of inguinal gonads, and the ultrasonographic characteristics of the inguinal gonads: "A subjective assessment of the masculinity of each animal's body form was also made, and its behavioural responses to a virile ram and to an oestrus ewe were recorded.
Sometimes he would go down to the waterfront, pretending he was going to make his way to some virile land where the courageous still prospered and sheep were eaten.
Pound said that he wanted the portrait to look "virile", and so it does – to a degree (from the back it looks rather like a limp penis).
Denis Bruna, the curator of the exhibit, said he has studied the human form in art through the centuries and has read countless ancient texts instructing women to be beautiful and men to be virile.
The ability to shift from virile to vulnerable is a mark of his performance in "Where We're Born," which the critic Charles Isherwood called a "standout" in The New York Times.
A man might be taught to be virile; he might establish his virility through "accumulated proofs" (sexual power, career success, a tempered disposition, a honed intellect); and yet virility, the editors write, remained "an especially harsh tradition" in which "perfections tend[ed] always to be threatened".
Even if the measure clears the Commons and many Labour MPs are deeply attached to the virile simplicity of FPTP it is unlikely to make it through the Lords before the looming general election.
Cowed by his failure to rise to the challenge of securing the Aspern papers, our awestruck narrator feels himself to be hopelessly ineffectual by contrast to the virile Colleoni, and stares plaintively "at the triumphant captain as if he had an oracle on his lips".
