Word: marathoning
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...marathon meeting of the City Council this week took definite action to curb the activities of street people in the Harvard Square-Cambridge Common area. Orders passed by the Council included...
...story of Scott and Zelda is one of the genuine literary legends of the century, recounted in several full-length biographies of Scott and mentioned in countless memoirs. Nancy Milford's book retraces all the familiar territory-the marathon drunks, the dips in public fountains-and adds poignant new testimony from diaries and letters concerning Zelda's schizophrenia. The book, though, is yet another proof that to know all is not to forgive...
American Treadmill. Brel's idiom is barely translatable from Flemish to French, let alone from French to English. Blau and Shuman went an impossible step farther, translating English into American. Les Flamandes (The Flemish Women), for example, became Marathon, and metamorphosed from a Belgian character study into a portrayal of the American treadmill. Then came the hard part. Blau wanted the show staged with "everything floating, and the feeling that all was pressed against a tapestry of utter silence." Off-Broadway, utter silence is a phenomenon that usually occurs only after a show closes...
Aeschylus had fought at Salamis, as be had at Marathon where his brother was killed, and he knew war. While the play is intrinsically undramatic, it is a remarkable achievement, humanly speaking, in that a victor aches with the torment of the defeated, recounts the terrible battle deaths of the slain, shows their widows and mothers keening in desolate, inconsolable grief. It is a kind of reverse Henry V, as if Shakespeare had set his play in France after the Battle of Agincourt, put his words in the mouths of the tiny remnant of once-proud French survivors, and evoked...
...CRIMSON'S marathon team is still the best among Ivy League newspaper squads after yesterday's convincing win in the Boston Marathon over the Daily Pennsylvanian and the Columbia Spectator...