Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is Calvino-speak, a language that is always looking for and talking about language, a model of words to fight the entropy of things. Calvino leaves us with a cozy picture of the outcome of evolutionary time, the image of the modern mind: Mr. Palomar falling asleep holding in his dreams the image of a great white ape holding an old rubber tire...
...librarians aren't the only ones whe have noticed things heating up in the stacks. According to Suzanne Barr '88, "I can't study in Lamont at all--I either fall asleep from the heat or feel like I'm going to pass...
Said Cathy Green '89, "I was asleep. When the alarm rang, I hit the snooze button on my clock, but the sound didn't stop...
...other hand, he feels obliged to describe what a stud he is: "In the weekday summer afternoons they would often make love in his parents' bed. Fiona would actually weep in frustration when he fell asleep after reaching his own climax." Is he as sensitive and profound an artist as his songs would suggest, or is he really just out for some action...
Possibly the most important indicator of his success is that no one has ever fallen asleep in one of his lectures, Fleming says, or at least, he adds, he hasn't noticed the dozing students. But he does try to observe the expressions of students during lectures to see how material is being received. "Every instructor has people chosen intuitively throughout the lecture hall to read their faces...