Word: sleepless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viereck only knows why he wrote this play, but I have a theory. Lying sleepless one night, I hypothesize, the poet was granted a line...
...traveling through the Deep South, a youthful Negro said calmly: "We can take anything the white man can dish out, but we want our rights. We know what they are-and we want them now." In the midst of a sleepless night in his Justice Department office in Washington, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, 36, hung up his telephone and said wearily: "It's like playing Russian roulette." And in Montgomery, the capital of Alabama and the birthplace of the Confederacy, Governor John Patterson, 39, wearing a pure white carnation in his lapel, complained bitterly: "I'm getting...
...action was an unqualified success. Few of the sleepless victims will have the strength to pass exams. Temporarily the System could relax. Yesterday, however, a disturbing report reached the central office that one of the fluorescent lights in Lamont had stopped buzzing...
...this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two. And I cannot say I should like (to speak for myself) To see my time over again-if you can call it time: Fidgeting uneasily under a draughty stair, Or counting sleepless nights in the crowded tube...
...Richard Rodgers once swore he would never open so much as a can of sardines without going to Boston first.) A uniquely American practice, the road tryout is as formalized as the judicium Dei the ordeal of the Middle Ages. The road ordeal is by rewriting and cutting, by sleepless nights and interminable waiting, by cold coffee and warm highball, by panicky rumor and wild hope. Severely tested along with everyone else is the audience, which has to sit through long scenes already marked for destruction. As a production is laboriously dragged from town to town (before Camelot reaches...