Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paid her everything you owed her." Unlike Bill, Jim Buckley and his wife Ann are somewhat shy and private. To date, the candidate has devoted most of his campaign to meetings with political leaders and editors around the state. He has yet to test his talents at marathon speaking and handshaking...
...post his 227th victory in the past five years. It is a wonder any rivals showed up at all after Eddy's crushing victory in last month's Tour de France, the richest and most prestigious event on the bike-racing calendar. A grinding, 23-day marathon that begins and ends in Paris, the Tour twists through 2,702 miles of lung-straining terrain. The daily laps are so brutal that strategy counts for as much as speed and stamina; the wise racer rides in the pack, pacing himself and hoarding energy for a final sprint. Not Eddy...
With this, the eleventh novel in his Strangers and Brothers series, C.P. Snow at 64 has finally, after 30 years and 135,000 words, pronounced finis, leaving the world of marathon-dance fiction to Fellow Briton Anthony Powell.*The last installment, Snow promised, would be a book about "death, judgment, heaven and hell." Last Things is considerably less than that. Its major shortcomings and minor but honest pleasures pretty well sum up what has been right and wrong with Strangers and Brothers from the start...
...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...