Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Critic Magazine

    The talk of the track

    Mar 25, 2021 3 minutes

    IT IS FAIR TO SAy that wokeness and indeed basic human decency has yet to reach the world of running. Here I provide a glossary to help new runners from good homes and caring universities master the language and fit into running’s rough world.

    CHICKED: When a young woman overtakes a middle-aged/elderly male runner. I have never heard a middleaged/elderly woman runner offer a comparable term for being overtaken by a young man. Perhaps TOYBOYED would do. I

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Critic Magazine

    The Critic Magazine4 min read
    Romeo Coates “Between You And Me …”
    GIVING US HIS MODERN-DAY Falstaff (suddenly “Shakespeare’s ultimate gangster”, apparently), McKellen unfashionably relies on a fat suit for the role. Though such an approach is now often frowned upon by the obese/obese-conscious, old Gandalf deems hi
    The Critic Magazine4 min read
    Michael Prodger on Art
    SOMETIME AROUND 1909, THE Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși was approached by “a lady from Paris, a princess” with a commission to carve her portrait. Brâncuși, a leading Modernist, had a “miserably low opinion” of traditional sculpture, even des
    The Critic Magazine3 min read
    Anne McElvoy on Theatre
    AGATHA CHRISTIE HAD MODEST aspirations for The Mousetrap when her murder mystery opened in 1952. Her producer predicted a 14-month run but the great literary stiletto-wielder replied, “It won’t run that long. Eight months perhaps.” By 1957, it had be

    Related Books & Audiobooks