Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard students will lose an hour's sleep tonight. Eastern Daylight Saving Time will move all clocks ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday morning...
What is wrong with all this is that those among the students contacted who had no interest in the spiritual movement and had no intention of recounting any religious experiences were strongly and justifiably annoyed by this invasion of their sleep and their privacy. If there is one tradition of which Harvard, as a market-place of ideas, should be most jealous, it is the tradition that any opinion should be allowed a hearing if anyone wants to hear it. But the market-place does not extend into the bedroom, and the affair of last Saturday abridged another important Harvard...
...Reich. But his World War II service was brief and painless. "I was with my squad of ten other men near a little town on the Rhine. We were posted in a field. It was a warm spring afternoon. We all lay down in the grass and went to sleep The next thing we knew, there were some French African troops standing over us with machine guns in their hands. We just did what they told...
...taken his speech. Meanwhile, Janos himself offered one more sphinxlike hint'. On the night last week before he left Wagna for Graz, the boy's restlessness awakened some of the other refugees. Suddenly they heard a high-pitched, quavering voice. It was Janos talking in his sleep. "I must wait five more years!" he cried in Serbian. When he woke next morning, he had lapsed again into helpless silence...
...only relief in this drama occurs when Orpheus and Eurydice return to this world on the condition that they never look at each other (they cannot sleep in the same room). But the humor is dampened as they see one-another in the rear-view mirror of the Rolls and Eurydice vanishes...