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...pure pursuits, among the purest has been the pursuit of slipped discs, varicose veins, shin splints, sagging breasts, side stitches and hernias-the traditional rewards of running. Runners who speak of their exquisite pains (and many runners speak of nothing else) say the compensations are, and ought to be, ethereal: surges of joy, increased selfesteem, improved sex lives. But commercialism is afoot and mercenaries are gaining. The Boston Marathon is about to turn...
...unsightly spectacle of their neighbors chugging around town in their underwear ("It must be spring, the saps are running again"), but no one has ever disputed the ideal at the heart of the Patriots Day race through the streets of Boston. For 86 years, it has been as pure as the April snow...
...there and not feel almost spiritually uplifted by the money-free aura. I know it's 99% impossible and 1% improbable that sports commercialization can be stopped. But that's why the amateur tradition of Boston needs preserving. We're down to our last 1% of pure-joy athletics...
...Jeepers, it's a whole new ball game." Kelley's favorite running now is at home on Cape Cod in the morning: "No traffic, no people, no nothing." He thinks of when he was young, "when people did hard things for the pure love of doing them," and it pleases him to believe that "there are plenty who still...
...over again. Even a self-conscious device, like the ocher scar on the old oak that anchors the radiating composition of Hilly Landscape with a Great Oak Tree and a Grain Field, circa 1654, is perfectly assimilated to the other elements of the painting. Such a canvas is pure Ruisdael: the precise eye for detail, the loving description of foliage, grass and bark that never degenerates into mere fact hunting; the hard-won density of tonal structure, the blessings of silvery light dropping from the sky. One can enter these pastures. Through them, the path to realism is seen...