Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even this successful Bicker can hardly be called a smooth, non-disruptive process. Until the bids are out and until most people have decided which club they are going to join, there is little sleep, little relaxation, and--throughout the period--no thought of academic matters. And, in this as in any Bicker, the sad spectacle of those "in trouble"--without bids, or with bids to clubs lower on the hierarchy than those their friends have received--existed...
...blue glare, the show's rumpled star looks like an insomniac alchemist. With spectacles sliding down his nose, he brews electrons, protons and mesons while evoking Newton, Faraday, Planck, Einstein and Heisenberg. To watch NBC's Continental Classroom (6:307 a.m.), some 275,000 Americans are sacrificing sleep for science five days a week...
Spacemen, Beware! Finally Tripp had delusions: he thought the marathon was over, but that the investigators were playing a game with him to keep it running. At one point he imagined he was broadcasting from another building miles away. These changes in mental functioning reminded psychiatrists of breakdowns under sleep deprivation and round-the-clock questioning in Iron Curtain countries. To psychologists thinking of spaceships, his crackup on the lighted-panel tests were a significant warning...
...fellow suffers! The camera follows in fascination as he is ravaged by the conflict between love and duty, country and humanity. In the end, with a gesture of completely incredible nobility, the major betrays his country by permitting the refugees to escape ("I would never have been able to sleep again"). Whereupon the scriptwriter suddenly remembers the freedom fighters, who are permitted to provide the shocker in the final scene. They cut the major down from ambush...
...Sixth Happiness. A sentimental, overlong but often moving film, not unlike a Cecil DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, with Ingrid Bergman as a missionary in China...