Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Kaufman, one of the youngest (40) federal judges, had had only ten hours' sleep in a week, had spent long hours in prayer at his synagogue. Tearful Mrs. Tessie Greenglass, mother of convicted spies Ethel Rosenberg and David Greenglass, had visited him to plead for her children. "I have deliberated for hours, days and nights," said Judge Kaufman. "I have searched my conscience to find some reason for mercy. I am convinced, however, that I would violate the solemn and sacred trust that the people of this land have placed in my hands were I to show leniency...
Among the exhibition's better and less ambitious pictures is Dreaming Girl. Outlined with conscious clumsiness, she fairly bulges her canvas. She is weighted with sleep, yet every line betrays a dreamer's restlessness. Her thick legs press together and her feet lock like hands; her head twists sideways as if to avoid the lute that lies across her. The painting clearly suggests the old Greek theme of Leda, with the lute serving as a dark swan. But Beckmann was not the man to labor his expressionism with handy tags and explanations...
...endured 43 consecutive days of bombardment, a naval record exceeding that achieved in the siege of Vicksburg.* Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith, in command of the naval task force off Wonsan, described the operation: "In Wonsan, you cannot walk on the streets. You cannot sleep any time in the 24 hours unless it is the sleep of death." The only people in the city, said the admiral, were ''suicide groups" of soldiers living in caves and waiting to fight a possible U.N. landing...
...loved walks and picnics. For a snack, they would carry along cucumbers and milk, hollowing out the cucumbers, cup-fashion, to drink the milk. In haying season, the whole family would pitch in, mowing and stacking with the peasant boys. It led to temptations. "Last night I could not sleep for a long time. Before I went to bed Masha had told me a number of incidents of her affair with young Paul, the gardener's boy. How frightful... Of all the lofty, fine things Papa tells us she has taken just what suits her-namely, that...
...ambition is based on nothing but urgent vanity. But when he continuously fails in his writing, Silvio persuades himself that he has "exhausted all my aggressive force in my wife's embrace." He maneuvers bewildered Leda into suggesting that until he finishes his book they should sleep apart...