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Psychiatrists Eugene L. Bliss and Lincoln D. Clark began the study for several reasons: 1) it is important for military men to know the limits of human endurance; 2) although the personality-destroying effects of sleep deprivation have long been known to inquisitors in police states (and lately used by Communists in brainwashing), they have been little studied by psychiatrists; 3) in a few cases, at least, the onset of schizophrenia is marked by insomnia so severe that it may be a precipitating factor...
Flyleaf. In Columbus. Ohio, a thief broke into the office of the Northminster Presbyterian Church, pocketed $10.40 from a desk drawer, left a note: "God Bliss You. I'm Sorry But The World...
Starting with review by the editor of Atlantic's impressive past, in which the mystical names of James Russell Lowell, Bliss Perry, Ellery Sedgwick, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and William Dean Howells figure as editors, the issue goes on to new material by past contributors. Frost, Marquand, Hemingway, Thurber, Berenson, Morison, Isak Dinesen, President Conant, Jung, Slichter, Niebuhr, Osbert and Edith Sitwell, Auden, Wilder, McGinley, R. P. Lister, and the late Max Beerbohm march with deserved pomp and circumstance through the table of contents...
...nonowners of a washer, TV set, refrigerator, etc., my family and I are free souls and glad of it. I suspect other struggling young college couples may join us in feeling decidedly smug towards the poor gadget-ridden middle class. I am beginning to firmly believe that poverty is bliss...
...this time there was an informal Big Three in the American Literature field at the University: Greenough, and Murdock, and Bliss Perry. Perry, who had made his entrance into the field at about the same time as Wendell, was quite different from his bearded colleague. Possessed of a slow deep voice, he had "nothing of the showman about him--he didn't need to have." He had, Douglas Bush recalled at Perry's death in 1954, "bright blue eyes, a slow smile, a warm and selfless concern with literature and things humane." Perry wrote one of the first favorable biographies...