Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concert version-being done several times over. The Boston Symphony performed the Concerto for Orchestra, the piece it premiered in 1944. The biggest American celebration, though, was in Detroit, where 52 guest artists recently joined Conductor Antal Dorati, 74, a BartÓk pupil, for a twelve-day marathon...
...more than 25 years, Novelist Donald Newlove would not separate his need to write from his need to drink. He put himself in excellent company. Literary history is strewn with ego-alchemists who believed that they could turn alcohol and ink into art. But the marathon effort of a novel requires a clear head for architecture, and wine, as Dr. Johnson put it, "makes a man mistake words for thoughts...
Critical because on the same day Reese--in a marathon performance--went four outstanding matches in consolation play. Highlights included Reese's defeat of Yale's David Barrett, followed by his defeat of Penn's number-one player. Brian Roberts. an exhausted Reese bowed to Tufts' Willard Bigelow in his final match...
Whatever the merits of the reformers' goals, the net effect has been a nearly permanent presidential election campaign, which culminates in a 37-primary marathon that exhausts and bewilders both the candidates and the voters. It ultimately leaves the party leaders very little to do at the nominating conventions except put on straw hats and look interested. One of the most remarkable aspects of the thoroughly "reformed" 1980 Democratic Convention was that the 3,331 delegates included only 72 Governors, Senators and Congressmen. By contrast, the assembled delegates included 388 representatives of teachers' unions-one sign that...
...Coming Bad Years) predicted the destruction of the dollar: "We will look back on 20% inflation with nostalgia." Investment seminars have become regular events at vacation spots in Florida and California. This weekend some 1,600 people are expected to pay up to $445 each for a five-day marathon at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hilton...