Word: insomnia
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...enthralled. Reporters duly noted that the suite contained what even the British have come to call a Hollywood-size bed, and the Daily Mirror commented: "Never was so large a bed used by so small a man with so little apparent regard for sleep." Frankie spent most of his insomnia with Adelle Beatty. Ostensibly in town to introduce Danny Kaye and other stars of Me and the Colonel at a benefit opening, Frankie took her to three parties on three successive evenings, particularly wowed Lady Northampton's guests. "Perfectly adorable," said Lady Lewisham, and Lady Dalrymple-Champneys...
...forgive a satire magazine for failing to be funny, or original, or mature. Or even forgive the Freudian make-up and the New Haven mailing address. But the greatest sin which satire can commit is being dull. And Monocle is better than sex for insomnia...
Benign and serene on a telenquiry program in Chicago, white-maned Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who admits to 70, disclosed that baton-waving gives him both uplift and insomnia: "It's a mystery to me, but one receives enormously something back from the music. It makes me feel strong. After a concert I hear the music all night. I can't sleep that night. All night I hear the music, and I hear the bassoons and the oboes and the different instruments." His view of applause for a performance? "What would you suggest as an alternative to applause? Supposing...
...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...
Suffering from insomnia in the 24-hour polar daylight, Rees interviewed members of the expedition around the clock. He quizzed Explorer Siple over coffee in the mess, in Siple's quarters, to the accompaniment of recorded harp solos, and out on the trail. Once, caught on a ledge above McMurdo Sound in a howling gale, Siple recalled that a member of the first Scott expedition (1901-04) had been blown to his death from that very spot. "Look," the explorer shouted, "there's his cross." By the time Rees was ready to leave McMurdo Sound for home...