Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...percent of the benefits of sleep come in the first two hours. He also discovered that "some guy in Japan" has been successful in sleeping forty minutes at a time, three times daily, for the last three and a half years. He decided to try a similar program, and Ford soon followed...
Clapp feels that the plan has been quite successful, but Ford has since given up the scheme. "When I finally stopped it, I was dead," Ford claims. "It doesn't work for long periods of time, but it seems to be effective in emergencies...
...Ford reports that the set-up "cuts down study effeciency because it takes so long to wake up, and when effeciency drops, less is accomplished...
...picture at right, Ford studies while Clapp sleeps during the late afternoon rest period...
...would be difficult to make a movie as effective as Steinbeck's novel, a work that was both publicly blessed and burned soon after its 1939 publication. Director John Ford and screenwriter Nunnally Johnson tried to recreate the book's impact by quite faithfully transcribing the original story and dialogue. Grapes of Wrath uses the Joads to exemplify the poor, Southwest farm family "tractored-off" their land by the big operators and forced west to California. The movie captures the epic quality of this last major westward migration, and the frightened hatred of the Californians towards these people...