Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, I suppose, the light goes out and he-actually goes to sleep. Well, do you know, frankly, I simply can't imagine him going to sleep just like anyone else. No, no, I know it's silly. I know he must have sleep, like other people. But it's just that I can't imagine it, somehow. Not him. And do you know, whenever the sun rises over Moscow I always think it's he, Stalin, who switches on the light...
Such strenuous campaigning allows the Maharaja only four hours sleep a night, but enthusiasm and a daily dose of 15 Dexedrine tablets more than make up the loss as he travels from town to town past loudspeakers blaring, "Give your vote to the Defender of the Faith-His Highness the Maharaja...
...examiners rewarded Weissberg with 24 hours of food and sleep. Refreshed, he boldly recanted the whole document. "You whore! You counter-revolutionary bandit!" raged the examiner, shoving him back on the stool. Weissberg stood it another four days, "confessed" again, again recanted. He then stood the "conveyer" for a further five days-and staggered out triumphant. From then on, the G.P.U. merely kept him in prison and beat him up occasionally...
...bachelor, Garner has a Manhattan apartment as well as a house in suburban White Plains, but not a piano. He putters occasionally with golf. A good part of the time, "I just sleep." He still cannot read a note of music. "It's a gift," Pianist Garner says. "The good Lord gave it to me and I'm trying to develop...
Amahl, a crippled boy, and his mother live in a rude hut. The three kings, traveling toward Bethlehem, ask lodging for the night. The desperately needy mother tries to steal some of their gold as they sleep, and is caught redhanded. As he did in The Consul, Menotti then makes his story point with dramatic directness. Sings King Melchior (Baritone David Aiken...