Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other lectures Cummings promised to "name Charles Eliot Norton's coachman and define sleep. . . . If you ask me," he said, "why talk about triviality, I shall answer: "What are they...
...more news. At least, you think he can't. But there is nothing predictable about this business. You can't leave the man (on this train everyone knows who you mean if you say, 'What's the man doing now?') alone for a moment. Sleep a little and he is out on the back platform in his pajamas and bathrobe, as he was at Salisbury...
...typical workday consists of riding in planes, trains and motor caravans, with at least a half-dozen speaking stops. After the first week or so, says Darby, the correspondent settles down to his routine of two to six hours of sleep a night, but, he adds: "What really seems to hurt is a vacation. I had six days in late September and the first couple of days back on the job just about killed me." But Darby says he was O.K. as soon as he got run down again...
...light shone in his eyes. Reshevsky's icy calm has a similar unsettling effect on his opponents. But the calm is only skin-deep. After match play, Samuel often breaks into a heavy sweat. When he has lost a game, or drawn one he should have won, sleep escapes him: "I go over and over it in my mind, searching for what went wrong. If I find it, I stay awake kicking myself. If I don't find it, the insomnia's even worse...
Ever-increasing emphasis on the Houses has further discredited the doctrine of protection. In a series of steps which included encouraging students via their bank balance to eat, sleep, and study in the Houses, the University has sought to fashion the Houses into centers of undergraduate life. By upholding its own local blue law, the Dean's Office has unwittingly set up movie theaters, beer emporiums, and the parked automobile as vigorous contenders for this role...