Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants him to quit and rest, plain Mr. Attlee has a big job looming ahead of him. Gone is the party's evangelical zeal of 1945, when Socialists sang Blake's great hymn, and meant it: "I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem/In England's green and pleasant land...
...mark this year, the highest ever. Among the huge assortment of new and ingenious toys are dolls that speak Spanish and French, dolls that say "Mama" when tilted one way and "Papa" when tilted the other, dolls that clap their hands, suck their thumbs, wet their pants ; dolls that sleep, smile or screw up their faces and bawl ("Hedy the Three-Faced Doll"). There are miniature race horses called "Phony Ponies," which are powered by Mexican jumping beans, cows that can be milked, a cowboy costume which, turned inside out. becomes an Indian suit...
...brute strength and indomitable will; her strength seems to be drawn from an immense source of nervous energy. This, joined with her sensitivity and fragile beauty, makes it seem impossible that she should last as long as she does under the same strain of guilt which overcomes Macbeth. The sleep-walking scene, when the sham is gone and there is nothing left but the subconscious, is the finest moment of the play...
Berkhamsted's prevailing idea, Greene remembers, was that "privacy could only be misused." The boys slept in a large dormitory where hardly a quarter of an hour passed "without someone snoring or talking in his sleep." The lavatories had no locks. Even solitary walks were forbidden. Yet there "one met for the first time characters, adult and adolescent, who bore about them the genuine quality of evil. There was Collifax, who practiced torments with dividers; Mr. Cranden with three grim chins, a dusty gown, a kind of demoniac sensuality; from these heights evil declined toward Parlow, whose desk...
...evening session of a sleep-drenched Congress...