Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that she cries: "I am too afraid to be sorry ... I want to be brave but I cannot." Feeling like an animal because she is always watched, Mary knows only two inescapable realities: prison and fear. Gradually her fear mounts to hysteria. She loses all control, screams in her sleep, abandons even vanity. Using lipstick would be indecent now, she thinks, "like painting the face of a corpse." In the end Mary cannot even think any more, and her execution, even to her executioners, seems meaningless and barbaric...
...bull terrier, Butcher Boy, because Harry Guggenheim will not allow him in the house), Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, Katharine Cornell and her husband Producer Guthrie McClintic, Publisher Bennett Cerf and his wife, Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh (who last time brought his own camping cot because he wanted to sleep outdoors), and occasionally, her attractive older sister Elinor, who once played in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle. With her guests Publisher Patterson rarely talks about herself, has a reporter's knack of drawing them out with penetrating questions while she stays in the background storing up information...
...Message on the Laity, which pointed out that the church and laymen "need each other." The old form of community has begun to disappear with industrialization, and many people "do little more than sleep in their 'parish' . . . The real battles of the faith today are being fought in factories, shops, offices and farms, in political parties and government agencies ... It is said that the church should go into these spheres, but the fact is that the church is already [there] in the persons of its laity . . . The Christian who for example, throws himself into the social and political...
...could only sleep like the dead...
...wish I could sleep and not hear a sound...