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...Latin Salutatory, delivered by Leah J. Whittington ’02, spoke of the search for truth. Her fanciful account of falling asleep in Widener Library and meeting Socrates in a dream elicited laughs from the graduates who could follow along in Latin or the English translation inserted in the Commencement Day program...
...outdoor scene captured in dazzling sunlight and painted with brush-strokes of bright, vibrant colors. Pastoral landscapes and blooming gardens feature prominently in the exhibit, as do women and children in bucolic settings and restful poses. Sargent's In the Orchard and A Lady and a Child Asleep in a Punt Under a Willow, Robinson's On the Cliff: a Girl Sewing and Irving Ramsey Wiles' Woman Reading on a Bench portray a serene, carefree world bathed in sunshine. Two of Cassatt's pictures, Young Woman and Her Child and Sara and Her Mother Admiring the Baby, are pastels...
...Churchill-like, at age 77. He takes pain-killers for his knees and has trouble with his bladder, liver and one remaining kidney. He is said to take a three-hour snooze every afternoon. He is given to interminable silences and sudden bursts of poetry, and not infrequently falls asleep in meetings...
...just regained consciousness after a 20-year nap. You fell asleep on the couch in 1982, and when you wake up, guess what's still on TV? The World Cup, of course. At first you pay little attention to the teams on the screen until you notice that the players wearing the royal blue jerseys are somehow different. This guy with a candy-apple red Mohawk darts into view, launching his lanky frame at the ball like a madman. In the center of the defense is a buzzing human gnat wearing the black-leather face mask of a professional wrestler...
...trouble with his bladder, liver and his one remaining kidney. A taste for fried food and fatty sweets plays havoc with his cholesterol. He takes a three-hour snooze every afternoon on doctor's orders and is given to interminable silences, indecipherable ramblings and, not infrequently, falling asleep in meetings...