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Harvey C Mansfield, one of Harvard’s most outspoken conservative professors and the author of a book called Manliness, also told the Guardian he questioned the decision.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2017

Manliness and virility were separate, and even opposed, ways of being.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 14, 2016

Some data points: Harvard prof Harvey Mansfield's highbrow Manliness cites Achilles to, yes, Margaret Thatcher for such qualities as honor, bravery, pigheadedness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile, monobrowed blogger Maddox's best seller Alphabet of Manliness high-fives hot sauce, Chuck Norris, chainsaws.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manliness, strength, courage, unselfishness—I know what these things mean; they mean Harry.

From The Comrade in White by Leathem, W. H. (William Harvey)