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...oscillation in the electroencephalograph (EEG). These brain waves consist of loops of activation between the cortex (the wrinkled surface of the brain) and the thalamus (the cluster of hubs at the center that serve as input-output relay stations). Large, slow, regular waves signal a coma, anesthesia or a dreamless sleep; smaller, faster, spikier ones correspond to being awake and alert. These waves are not like the useless hum from a noisy appliance but may allow consciousness to do its job in the brain. They may bind the activity in far-flung regions (one for color, another for shape...
...lamps. A plush dining car with red-cushioned seats serves grilled steaks and French wine. And, best of all, a fluffy cotton comforter awaits weary travelers at the end of the day. Lulled by the rhythmic, rattling sway, even the most insecure voyager would find worries melting into a dreamless sleep in almost no time...
That happy circumstance has befallen Slab Boys, a burst of bitter memory from Scottish Playwright John Byrne about the hopeless nights and dreamless days of young men who grind dyes in the "slab room" of a carpet factory near Glasgow. When first produced in New York, off-Broadway in 1980, the play seemed a programmatic denunciation of the social order, as personified by two pompous functionaries and by a blazered young prig who was passing through the slab room on his foreordained...
...reporters will be sleeping soundly by now, perhaps for the first time in months. For those who traveled with the candidates, from backwaters to crammed auditoriums, from airplanes to buses to a hundred motel rooms of varying size and comfort, the sleep must indeed be deep and dreamless. Now comes the longed-for respite from compulsive transcribing and typing and searching for something of interest in the inevitable sameness of a campaign that never should have lasted so long. Through a television camera or a newspaper's front page, that long line of reporters peered into the unreal world...
This was the tragedy of the movement during the years of blood and dreams at Montgomery, Atlanta, Albany, and Birmingham; this remained the tragedy when the dream was fading at St. Augustine; and would still be the tragedy at bloody, dreamless Selma...