Word: marathons
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Enlightenment Simplified. Ministerial interest was greatly stimulated by Hefner's earnest, marathon attempt to spell out the "Playboy philosophy." It took 25 installments and a quarter of a million words. Hefner's thesis was that U.S. society had too long and too rigorously suppressed good, healthy heterosexuality. Since its growth had been stunted, Hefner argued, all sorts of perversions flourished in its place. "You get healthy sex not by ignoring it but by emphasizing it," he maintains. And the villain at the bottom of all this? Organized religion, announced Hefner with an unabashed air of discovery. Hefner revived puritanism long...
...than to journalism. Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy will serve for a start. For a finish, he can wrap up the whole era with Anthony Powell's incalculably brilliant series, The Music of Time. In The Soldier's Art, the eighth novel in this marathon enterprise,* Powell, now 61, brings his narrator hero, Nick Jenkins, into his second year of World War II. Jenkins carries on with his task of scoring for conversation the operatic ballet that keeps Powell's 50-odd characters dancing eccentrically until war imposes its own choreography...
...four days of marathon sessions before Sukarno's press conference, the triumvirate had pleaded with him to leave voluntarily. Suharto and his colleagues pointed out that he might have to be brought to trial on charges that he encouraged the abortive Communist coup of 1965. The verdict might well be guilty, and the sentence death. They reminded him that they were already armed with a parliamentary resolution demanding his ouster. At one point, Sukarno broke down and wept, pleading that he be given "a chance to die in my home country." But he recovered next day, presented the triumvirate...
After that, says Dr. Gerbode, "it was just a matter of not making any mistakes." It was also a 91-hour marathon for him and his three assistant surgeons. With the heart exposed (see diagram), Dr. Gerbode stripped away part of its outer sac (pericardium) for later use. Next he sewed up the ductus arteriosus where it joined the pulmonary artery. Then, with his patient connected to the heart-lung pump, he set its heat-exchanger to chill Mrs. Vanella's blood to 68° F., to reduce the brain's oxygen demands...
...ranked virtually nowhere among the oil-producing nations of the world. Today it stands seventh, behind the U.S., U.S.S.R., Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran. Thirty-nine companies have drilling operations in the Libyan desert. The biggest producer is a consortium, Oasis Oil Co. of Libya, Inc., comprising Continental, Marathon and Amerada-Shell. Also on the scene are Esso, Mobil/ Gelsenberg (75% Mobil-owned) and Amoseas, a joint exploration venture of Texaco and Standard of California. Together, these giants pump more than 1.7 million...