Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article published February 22, The Crimson incorrectly quoted Kenneth A. Gerber '89 as saying that most of the proceeds from the Dance Marathon would go to the Currier House-affiliated Jefferson Park project. The proceeds were split evenly among five student public service organizations, including the Jefferson Park program...
...passions long delayed. There is Hulda Crooks, 91, who has climbed 97 mountains since she turned 65, most recently Mount Fuji in Japan. And Dentist James Jay, 74, who finished, along with 51 other septuagenarians and four octogenarians, that 26-mile ribbon of pain, the New York City Marathon. And Virginia Peckham, 69, known on San Clemente beach as "That Crazy Old Lady," riding an orange-and-white boogie board and shouting surfing mantras. And Etta Kallman, 77, writing knowingly about "The Metabolism of the Dinosaur" and winning awards for academic excellence from New York University. And Jane Stovall...
...Americans pick a new President on Nov. 8 they will have invested nearly half a billion dollars in a random and chaotic process. They will have absorbed encyclopedic detail on such pop issues as the "wimp factor," and probably given more of the public's airwaves to this political marathon than to any other story of our age. Then a lot of them will lose interest until the Inauguration...
...hurry too much, Hypermart offers a Ball Room, where parents can deposit their children to be supervised. But anyone who wants to shop in a 200,000-sq.-ft. store should remember to don jogging shoes. Says Melba Lincoln, a Dallas homemaker: "Shopping here is like running a marathon...
Though the power of back-room bosses has been broken, other factions and interest groups manipulate the rules for their own benefit. What should be a deliberative search for candidates of heft becomes a demeaning marathon. What should help unify the party becomes a divisive struggle. Talented leaders remain on the sidelines rather than confront the Kafkaesque process. Long before voters focus on the people and issues involved, the dynamics of the nominating cycle are established on the basis of "expectations" and "momentum," with the press in charge of calibrating the standards. It is, in the words of Congressman Morris...