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...also seems that Honeywell will not be stopped front its military work by pressure from inside the corporation itself. A Honeywell employee, who asked not to be identified, told The Crimson: "Most Honeywell employees are dead asleep. They just don't want to be bothered. Some middle level workers, who are at least aware of the anti-personnel weapons issue, have told me that bombs in Indochina are simply too far away for rank and file people to concern themselves with. They are too busy with their day to day work...
...these have been abandoned too soon. Even so, the old master has his moments of magic, turning his nouns into verbs and moving more often than not in a seven-syllable line that sounds like simple conversation but conceals much art. In "Nocturne," though most of the world is asleep, "someone in the small hours,/ for the money or love, is/ always awake and at work./ Here young radicals plotting/ to blow up a building, there/ a frowning poet rifling/ his memory's printer's-pie/ to form some placent sentence." Then...
...city of Amarcord, but they are all good things: A great ocean liner sails by the coast at night, lit up like it was sailing out of an electric forest; the whole population of the town piles into its boats and waits for the ship to pass, falling asleep for hours. Nature is strange but always benevolent, from the "puffballs" that, blown about everywhere, announce the end of winter, to the summer rain that comes down for just half a moment and then is gone just as suddenly, and, most of all, the snow, amazing...
When he was an undergraduate at the University of Southern California (class of '71), Eric Cohen was so bored by some professors that he fell asleep in class. Now he is doing his best to keep the current student body from dozing off too. In fact, Cohen, a gagwriter for Johnny Carson and NBCTV, has been hired by U.S.C. to write jokes for professors to use in their lecture courses...
...position, therefore, to cast a critical eye on Spanish aristocratic society, he conceived a series of "suenos," or dreams. For his frontispiece, he made a print which he called "El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstruous"--the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. A man lies crumpled on his desk, asleep, and devoid of reason: he is attacked by a horde of owls--the Spanish symbol for dirt and stupidity--black bats and a glaring...