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...just because we sleep between Ivy-covered walls, it doesn’t mean we sleep soundly. And as we climb higher, the tower weakens further under instability of its hasty structure. Some breeze might come along and poke out a rung, and suddenly we’ll be back on the ground, surrounded by the rubble of our own accomplishments...
...this new proposal Vishinsky made his famous reply: "I could hardly sleep all last night. I could not sleep because I kept laughing." The stalemate was broken again by the U.S. last December, when, before the U.N., President Eisenhower suggested private conversations on control, and proposed the creation of an international pool of fissionable material for peaceful purposes. This plan thus far has borne no tangible results. Last week the U.S., France and Britain proposed a new meeting of the U.N. Disarmament Commission for resumed closed-door discussion...
...truly epic work whose six movements are modeled after the classical Divertimento. During the compositional process, Schubert suffered from a severe, and eventually terminal, case of syphilis; shortly after the completion of the Octet he wrote to a friend: “Every night when I go to sleep I hope not to wake again, and every morning brings with it the memory of yesterday’s misery.” None of his personal pain, however, manifests itself in the stunningly lyrical and hopeful Octet, which is reminiscent of Beethoven’s famous Septet. This brilliant?...
...students still find time to make it to class. Even after one particularly rowdy night with the HBS Canadian Club at Mantra, a trendy Boston club, almost every student was present the following morning in Aldrich Hall, Room 11, section E’s home base. “Sleep gets sacrificed,” says section member Seth B. Blackley about the HBS lifestyle. According to Kim, section E usually has 11 80-minute classes each week, in addition to study group sessions every morning at 7:30 a.m. “Its not like the academic rigor isn?...
...this point, cramming for exams is second nature. We know how to write essays in our sleep. We have somehow even managed to fit a full class schedule and many hours of extracurricular activity into one week and still do almost a quarter of the reading. You start to fear that you may never be able to do anything as well as you were able to do in school...