Word: coe
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...coming to Harvard, I've often joked with friends that I couldn't possibly get by with any less than six hours of sleep every night. Tales of students with the ability to pull one or even two all-nighters in a row continue to amaze me. Yet Jonathan Coe's The House of Sleep puts even these feats of slumber to shame; insomnia, somnambulism and narcolepsy are among the much more serious disorders with which his characters are attempting to come to terms. Coe tells a well-constructed story in which the themes of unrequited love, sexual identity...
...continuous stream of events are not so important to the plot as the actual events them-selves--much in the same way that the images of a dream don't present themselves in any discernible order, but when properly analyzed, make a great deal more sense. In this respect, Coe's manipulation of the sleep theme is communicated very effectively...
...skilled as the author is in strengthening certain characters, his choice to weaken Dudden by exposing the doctor's neuroses seems not to fit with the rest of the story. As a student, Dudden might have been described as cold and analytic at best. However, Coe's decision to allow the doctor to become consumed by a desire to live in a sleepless state proceeds in a forced and unconvincing direction. Insinuations that Dudden is little more than a mad scientist whose experiments in the realm of sleep deprivation must be stopped are tiresome and perhaps even inappropriate...
Other documents turned over to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee by Bob Dole's presidential campaign further erode Norquist's protestations of independence. R.N.C. deputy finance director and close Dole adviser Jo-Anne Coe directed a $100,000 contribution to Norquist's group from banana baron Carl Lindner two weeks before the election. "Keep up the good work," she wrote Norquist. Norquist did not return a telephone call seeking comment. An R.N.C. spokesman said the party never dictated the use of money given to Norquist's group; Dole, meanwhile, has volunteered to answer questions from Thompson's committee this week...
...delighted I was to read the review of the biography of television producer Fred Coe [BOOKS, Aug. 18]. I was lucky to be his secretary at NBC television in 1950-51. He deserved his title as the "boy genius" of TV. Every Sunday night he produced the Philco Playhouse, presenting a one-hour drama. Fred's standards were high, and because he gave his utmost, all those around him did likewise. When his wife was expecting a baby, we on his staff urged Fred to name it either Phillip or Phyllis so the child's name would be "Phil" Coe...