Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faust stands in contrast to the vast impersonal forces of Nature, the earthy pleasures of the Folk, and Satan's cynical malice. Except for a brief moment of enchanted sleep, the Devil offers him only a brutal bird's eye view of earth and its blasphemies: armies on the march, revelers bloated with wine, and a drunken Amen on the death of a rat. For his great affaire de coeur, Faust must sneak behind a curtain while Marguerite prepares for bed, then pop into sight only when magic has rendered her more than willing. The disillusion culminates as neighbors assemble...
...current shelves, Victor's Music to Help You Sleep offers such sentimental oldies as Beautiful Dreamer, Love Walked In and several more, with a come-hither jacket picture of a redhead in negligee perched on the edge of bed. Columbia's Dream Time Music by Paul Weston offers Embraceable You, Over the Rainbow, Why Shouldn't I?, etc., with a disheveled, shirtless brunette striding through a misty landscape...
...outside door, does a back dive into a two-foot-deep puddle of rich brown mud. As she sits there, looking like a beauty-parlor victim whose facial has got out of hand, Desi appears and inquires mildly, "What's the matter, honey, can't you sleep...
...labor relations world is impressed by his professorial bent. He used to lose sleep worrying how his arbitration decisions would be accepted. "Now I just call 'em as I see 'em and walk away...
Stiff Shock. How was the Volkswagen miracle performed? When Heinz Nordhoff took over in January 1948, he moved a cot into one of the plant's drafty, rat-ridden offices and started on a seven-day week with only a few hours off for sleep. Believing that "labor and management must be unified into one big group that depends on the same success," Nordhoff called a meeting of his shabby work force. "I'm afraid I gave them a stiff shock," says he. "I told them their working methods and production were miserable. It was taking...