Word: relaxants
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Many vacationers--especially the younger crowd--at Padre who explore the island enjoy the go-cart tracks. Those who want a respite from the frenzied activity of the beach--especially the older crowd--can relax in a rowboat off the sound and catch fish...
...change in schedule would have quite a few advantages. First of all, Harvard students could enjoy the winter holidays. We could actually relax; we could spend time with family and friends without feeling guilty for not studying. Under the current system, we are anxious during the holidays and reading period, we sweat through our exams at the end of January and we begin the second semester after only a few days of rest--only three days if we have the last exam! If exams were completed before break, we could rest for a few weeks and be more psychologically ready...
...stress about the next day of paper-writing or an imminent exam. Insomnia for me meant worrying incessantly, for the first time in my life, that I would not be able to fall asleep. I spent my many waking night-time hours yelling frantically at myself: "Sleep! Sleep! Relax! RELAX!" When self-punishment failed to calm me down, I turned on the tape recorder. I paced, manically. I pounded my mattress. I stared into the light bulbs until my eyes watered. I cried, almost...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynz eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
...relax," the Times revealed, "Mr. Giuliani sometimes drives his Cadillac Seville through the Hudson Valley, classical music filling...