Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spouting, rip-snorting oratory. Dirksen and his filibuster co-captain, North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, had assigned each of their 27 teammates to a group and a captain; each was prepared to carry on night and day if pushed. But nobody was pushing. Majority Leader Mansfield refused to hold marathon sessions, saw to it that the Senate always recessed in time for dinner, and once even in time for lunch-all of which moved Oregon's waspish Wayne Morse to complain that the Senate was keeping "banker's hours...
...bitter controversy over removing Cambridge's city manager has turned the Council into a curious cross between a political horror show and an endless teach-in on city government. Most of the recent meetings have been filled by the marathon testimony of suspended city manager John J. Curry '19, who has explained -- detail by detail -- how he ran Cambridge for nearly 14 years. But the long hearings have been punctuated by almost daily verbal battles between the four councillors supporting Curry and the majority that wants to replace him with Josph A. DeGuglielmo...
...more than 100 pages while Author Berto composes an intense but trite idvertisement for himself and incidentally reminds the critics yet once more that Freud may be good for people but he sure is bad for writing, though not half so bad as Berto's habit of composing marathon sentences that go on and on and on for five, ten, 20 and once even for 37 pages with so little artistic reason for being that the puzzled reader may well wonder if the whole book is not simply a typographical catastrophe caused by the absence, on Berto...
...that he has "the heroic amount of guts" needed to sing Wagnerian roles. Put in the U.S., it means that Thomas is the first and most notable of what appears to be a new stable of American heldentenors: men with the projection of a foghorn, the endurance of a marathon cyclist and the range of an ICBM. Most have an ego to match...
Health Buff. For most of the time, Lindsay seemed to thrive on his exhausting schedule. Again and again he appeared on television-reasonably clear-eyed and full of confidence-to encourage and inform New Yorkers. One day he spent almost 18 marathon bargaining hours at the Americana in what proved to be a futile hope that a settlement was near. Between the hours devoured by the strike, he discussed with aides some of the issues that will face his administration: the city's $200 million deficit, his plans to streamline the government, appointments to key posts. He even found...