Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homeowners along Strasburg Avenue were getting no sleep. Last week a Detroit Times reporter investigated. When he heard a ghostly rapping in his car, he stopped and asked a resident for an explanation. Snapped John Novak: "There is no ghost, and no child was killed on this street. We have been hearing this knock for three years-ever since they put in the new pavement of cement slabs. In the daytime, the slabs expand in the sun's heat. In the evening, the concrete contracts, and the slabs wobble when a car goes over it." The edges grate...
...Sleep of Prisoners (by Christopher Fry; produced by Luther Greene) is staged in the U.S., as it was in England, in a church (TIME, May 28). The setting and the resonant acoustics of Manhattan's St. James' Church are well suited to Playwright Fry's religious allegory; the actors (three of them from the original British cast) have mastered that rare trick of speaking poetry as though they meant it. But the play itself is another of those allegorical wastelands and wildernesses that the life of the times has imposed upon its literature...
...Sleep of Prisoners is more austere than anything Fry has written; an inquiry into-and seemingly away from-spiritual desolation. But it lacks the strong simple current, the climactic movement, of religious and dramatic emotion alike. It has none of the widening allegoric vision of a Langland or a Bunyan. For one thing, each dream is really a self-enclosed characterization, so that the play has no organic development. By putting Adams' affirmative dream last, Fry allows it to point his moral, but not in dramatic terms: it is either Adams talking to himself, or Fry talking...
...hotel. After seven days on the 16th floor of the huge New York Hospital, Patient Mossadeq was discharged. The doctors' verdict, as reported by the Premier's physician-son, Gholam Mossadeq: there is nothing wrong with him that a good rest, regular meals and regular sleep won't cure. In the U.S., he has been getting all three...
...replace dangerous sleeping pills, Schering Corp. released last week (on prescription only) capsules of a drug named Dormison, which contains no barbiturates or bromides. To more than 1,000 human guinea pigs, Dormison brought restful sleep within half an hour and left no hangover on waking. Anybody who takes even a twentyfold overdose can be revived with caffeine...