Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precisely where to strike to draw blood. As it is, Alice simply calls Edward a "miserable old wart hog" and a "fiend," as if she had long since despaired of finding anything more imaginative to say. The Dance, at last, is little more than a gray and rather disagreeable marathon...
...first man to run in the marathon, Pheidippides, paid for it with his life. The marathon is that type of race--none of the quick glamour of the sprints, nor the intense excitement of the pole vault or the high jump--instead only 26 miles and 385 yards to cover in a finite amount of time, and it means, inevitably, pain...
...Boston Common to support the marchers, the first of many monster rallies there. It saw 500 students, undeterred by a Lampoon counter-demonstration, ride SDS's buses to the first of many marches on Washington. It saw the first of many Harvard teach-ins on Vietnam, an all-night marathon that had to be moved to Sanders Theater and overflowed anyway. And it saw Harvard's first hostile confrontation with a war-maker, an eminently polite debate between ex-dean of the faculty McGeorge Bundy and antiwar professors including Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History, while 35 picketers demonstrated...
Vandervoort and his staff of 24 counselors tackle the full range of sexual woes from premature ejaculation to simple marital boredom. The approach is novel, to say the least. One of the clinic's most controversial innovations is a weekend marathon of sexually explicit education films shown to as many as 20 couples at once. The screening, which includes a few old stag reels (for "historical interest," says Vandervoort), helps reduce anxiety about sexuality while at the same time demonstrating some typical patterns of sexual behavior. Six hours of movies and a lengthy discussion with counselors are enough...
...avoids the Hollywood social marathon but is not the contemplative fellow he sometimes pretends to be. He is known for lightning affairs with starlets. He hates other people's parties ("I don't like making conversation with someone I'll never see again"), but enjoys giving dinners or screenings, particularly for his peers among the famous and powerful. When word of Ali's affair with Steve McQueen became public, a frequent house guest at the Evanses offered to intercede. "If I can negotiate with the North Vietnamese in Paris, maybe I could negotiate with...