Word: walkathon
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...Endless Walkathon. Would-be philanthropic heavens too often become pluperfect hells. Just into his teens, the hero in The Good Light still has partial vision, but the first thing that assails him at the Blind Institute is the smell - paint, sour beer, and wet floor mops. The food is stale bread, dry cheese and gruel that the sightless inmates wolf down like animals. When the boy says good morning to his schoolmates, no one turns a head. He has entered a world in which nothing exists until it is touched...
After another year or so of strolling through the U.S., the Gills plan another European jaunt-then, perhaps, Australia. Eventually, when they become too feeble to keep up with their walkathon, they hope to pick out the pleasantest town they have seen and settle down. It will be a difficult decision to make. "I have the names of a thousand towns jotted down in my notebooks," says Dorothea Gill, "and after each one I have the notation, 'This is the place I'd like most to live...
Heath put his role in the walkathon this...
...peaceable observer, war seems to have jumped ahead of the school of the soldier. The pace of battle has been stepped up immeasurably. Airplanes have succeeded trenches as the outstanding factor in modern warfare. The blitzkrieg of today makes the First World War look like a walkathon by comparison...
...Sometimes they were a social-conscious emetic like Philip Evergood's painting of a walkathon in which it was hard to tell the epicene men from the epicene women staggering in various stages of rawly colored collapse...