Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharply across the knuckles. Then somebody else offered him whisky, a drink that made him miserably hot, so he decided that white men were an unfriendly lot at best. Turning his back on the explorers, he built an igloo nearby and settled down with his family for a sleep-only to be awakened shortly afterward by an uninvited anthropologist. While the "lemming-faced" white intruder busily sketched everything in sight, hospitable Ernenek brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed hodgepodge of caribou eyes, ptarmigan dung, auk slime and fermented bear brain," which the visitor rudely refused. Then wife Asiak...
McCarthy, a gambler by instinct, gives no sign of doubt. He still lives like a burning roman candle; in times of stress or excitement he goes without sleep or food, drinks steadily for days on end without a tremor of unsteadiness. Even in normal period he often awakens, apparently fresh, after only a few hours of sleep, tosses off vodka and tomato juice (a combination which he believes does not taint the breath), reads leases or studies maps and impatiently awaits the new dawn...
...accurate, for a script that is quietly humorous, for a cast in which nobody is exceptional and everybody is competent, including Harvard's own Ricardo Moutalban. It is exceptional for dealing with war on the personal level, on the when-do-we-eat-next or where-do-we-sleep-tonight level, rather than trying to cover the complexity of an entire operation. Genuine combat films are fine, but you may find they go down better straight, as in "Fighting Lady" or "Action in North Africa," than when watered down with histrionies, as in "Sands of Iwo Jima...
...accurate, for a script that is quietly humorous, for a cast in which nobody is exceptional and everybody is competent, including Harvard's own Ricardo Montalban. It is exceptional for dealing with war on the personal level, on the when-do-we-eat-next or where-do-we-sleep-tonight level, rather than trying to cover the complexity of an entire operation. Genuine combat films are fine, but you may find they go down better straight, as in "Fighting Lady" or "Action in North Africa," than when watered down with histrionics, as in "Sands of Iwo Jima...
...Sleep, said Shakespeare, knits up the ravelled sleeve of care. Mindful of this, Merrill O. Young '51 sought for a way to prepare himself for a Greek final and still maintain a healthy outlook on life. He found the answer in a psychology book...