Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About getting up in the morning: every sleep psychologist's theory [Feb. 14] seems to fit me, contradictory though they are. If I am out of the house by 7 a.m., I am astonished by the number of people similarly off schedule. When the alarm goes off, I am awake, hot or cold. I usually hear the click. If the alarm should not go off, I can rely on my internal alarm. I am introverted but don't really function until afternoon. I once slept for 27 hours because I wanted to and went without sleep...
...middle of the night and rising toward morning. Late risers, one explanation runs, simply may not be hot enough to get up easily. Deep sleep and light sleep also alternate at different rates; many researchers now argue that slow risers are in a period of heavy sleep when their alarm clocks clang. For yet unexplained reasons, however, some 20% of Americans enjoy accurate internal alarm clocks that wake them automatically...
...tape-recorded exhortations from their minister or psychiatrist. One nagged, "You hate to face reality because you think you don't measure up. It's absurd to dwell on something like this." Of course, many iron-willed morning veterans rely on nothing more complicated than putting the alarm clock across the room. But if that fails, for $384, Dine sells an ejecting bed. At the proper ungodly hour, it catapults its owner upright...
...drawings, clocks, bronzes and all. This show certainly makes one think of Winthrop, and look at the collection with a feeling for him, in his house, looking at them. I can just see him in front of one of his lovely clocks, trying to decide whether to set the alarm at "air," "dance," "gavotte," or "song...
...sexual roles. The men, father, son and photographer-fiancé, are towers of Jello. The women, wife and daughter, are ice picks. They live in what is almost a psychotic New York milieu of impending violence and the rape of privacy. There are three locks and a burglar alarm on the front door. There is also "The Breather," a telephonic intruder, who calls at odd, menacing hours to breathe and snort. At comic and not-so-comic war with itself, the family listens to sporadic rifle fire in the streets that betokens a city at war with itself...