Word: insomnia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are various ways in which girls show their feelings of estrangement. According to doctors at the University Health Services, for many girls the sophomore year is one of overeating, oversleeping, insomnia, and depression. Health Center statistics reveal that over a two-year period, 2.4 per cent of the sophomore class at Radcliffe was treated for insomnia, as compared with a maximum of one per cent in any other class. Four per cent of all sophomores were treated or hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a third more than any other class...
...goal of Yoga is "molding the body and harmonizing its movements," Moynahan repeatedly urged his students to be conscious of the internal movements of their body as they rested. Incidental benefits of the exercises, he said, are "ellimination of fat and sag, peak beauty, peak health, so colds, no insomnia, no constipation, etc." "Peddle air--it up the old leg muscles and firms up these thighs," Yogaman Ted Moynahan advises one of his young pretages in Cabot Hall, Moynahan also had the girls looking like limpid pools and cobras "Some of them are just marvelous--they catch on so awfully...
...said Dr. White. "And this is a fact that our clergy and psychiatrists should pay more attention to: our brain is nourished by our heart and our heart is aided by active muscles." Bicycling was the answer for both mind and body: "The best antidote for nervous tension and insomnia is some sort of physical fatigue. The muscles become tired and relaxed. If more of us exercised like this, we'd have a sharp reduction in the amount of tranquilizers and sleeping pills in use today...
Shriver had cause for insomnia-as one event swiftly proved. Hardly had the Peace Corps put its feet on foreign ground than there was a major flap: a corps girl named Margery Michelmore, stationed in Nigeria, dropped a home-addressed postcard that seemed critical of life in that shoeless African nation; it was picked up, put in anti-American channels, and screechingly publicized.*Shriver is convinced that the subsequent success of the Peace Corps has been such that there will be no repetition of that incident. "It won't happen again -not like that," he says...
Like Old Times. The day of the fight Clay had insomnia. He got up at 6:30 slipped silently out of the Plymouth, and walked two blocks to Madison Square Garden. Nobody recognized him staring up at the marquee that read TONIGHT -BOXING-CLAY vs. JONES. Clay eturned to his room, sprawled on the bed. At 10 he was up again, restless, bubbly' puckish. At the weigh-in, Cassius burst into the room and strode toward the scales -startled laughter in his wake. Even Doug Jones could not resist a smile. There, plastered across the Mighty Mouth...