Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classes unless they have honor grades. But by the time a students in the top two classes unless they have honor grades. But by the time a students gets to be a senior, he can stay up all night, smoke, go to Concord whenever he pleases, and sleep through breakfast. Yet he still can't skip classes, and his housemaster still discusses his grades with him every two weeks. It is hard to determine just how much responsibility one can put on a student, and if Middlesex is occasionally a little constricting...
...English minor. Among his senior year courses: chamber music, third year Greek, history and theory of music, movie production. Extracurricular activities: recording sessions, rehearsals for his limp but likable TV show, ukulele concerts for his wife-who is his own age-and four daughters. He averaged six hours of sleep a night while working at Columbia, studied Ibsen on transcontinental flights, still managed to look buttercup-fresh in two movies made last year (he was Hollywood's third biggest dollar draw). Singer-Scholar Boone racked up an A-minus average, missed Phi Beta Kappa only because he took...
...Huxley's pessimistic opinion that his fearful Brave New World is indeed close at hand. It was not until the Year of Our Ford 632 (according to the 1932 novel) that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world's population from 700 million at the time...
Guided Thinking. Huxley cites such opinion-forming techniques as brainwashing, subconscious communication, drugs, sleep teaching. But when he discusses propaganda, Huxley begins to advocate it. The champion of laissez-faire in the marketplace of ideas becomes the proponent of guided thinking for the masses-along the proper lines, of course. Individuals, he says, "should be taught enough about propaganda analysis to preserve them from an uncritical belief in sheer nonsense, but not so much as to make them reject outright the not always rational outpourings of the well-meaning guardians of tradition. That which is merely irrational but compatible with...
...week added "executive mouth." Plenty of dental defects, said Dr. Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth loosen and may fall...