Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recent diagnosers of the national psyche have asked, and partly answered, the questions implicit in their titles. Will America's 300-year-old marathon, The Pursuit of Loneliness, never stop? inquired Philip Slater. Theodore Roszak wondered whether the counterculture of the '60s could lead to a Promised Land, Where the Wasteland Ends. Half autopsy-reporters of the American Dream, half scenario-writers of America 2001, watchers for the new greening (or the last withering) form a kind of avant-garde of prophets-in-waiting...
...question, "Whose freedom and whose press?" Those who envision deep investigative reporting from journalists no longer hampered by legal threats, he argued, fail to perceive the obstacles never faced in the courtroom--pressures from management and the rest of the "pack," the inevitable effects of a grinding marathon beat, and of simple human frailty...
Last week a special meeting of the Labor Party central committee gave Premier Golda Meir an overwhelming vote of confidence, but the 18-hour marathon session betrayed some of the di visions plaguing the country. No sooner had the meeting begun than Deputy Premier Yigal Allon demanded that the whole Cabinet resign. He asserted that the entire Labor Party must accept the responsibility for the mistakes of the war. But some, he said, were more guilty than others. That was an undisguised attack on Dayan, who answered: "You can bring my resignation with the smallest hint. I am not glued...
Rock lovers will have to warm themselves this chilly weekend with memories of last weekend's Dead marathon. Folk and jazz freaks will do better...
...impossible, however, to leave Conrad Rooks's filmed Siddhartha without gingerly reaching for one's wallet to make sure it's still there. This unspeakable insult to the cinema and to the India it depicts has all the imaginative variety of a Hare Krishna marathon in Harvard Square, and the P.T. Barnum mentality lately put to profitable use by a noted fifteen-year old mob leader who drives a Rolls-Royce. Never has the search for eternal cosmic wisdom been so short (an hour and a half), seemed so long (an eternity), and revealed so little...