Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swooning in the picture has nothing to do with singing. Happy dust fills the air as an absorbed audience watches the hero get his, but not in the end. Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak gradually displace the heroin; as a result, Robert Benchley finds himself unable to sleep in a short at Loew's State and Orpheum...
Since 1873, generations of Harvard-men have sacrificed study and sleep for the satisfying pleasures of producing one of the nation's best college dailies. Any present-day college or Radcliffe undergraduate will have an opportunity to follow in their footsteps, when the red doors of the Crimson open to them tonight...
...white person gives a Negro a single penny for transportation or helps a Negro with his transportation, even if it's a block ride, he is helping the Negro radicals who lead the boycott. The Negroes have made their own bed, and the whites should let them sleep...
Christopher Fry's A Sleep of Prisoners is not really a play, nor even a dramatic poem. It may perhaps best be described as a confusing verbal exercise in philosophy. The English playwright apparently set out to describe the state of mankind in a world at war, with man represented by four prisoners locked up in an unused church. Instead of presenting his ideas--which say pretty much that "no man is an island"--through a conventional plot, Fry approaches his theme through the dreams of the captives. Each of the dreams is based on a Biblical story, but despite...
...direction, the acting, and Donald Adam's imaginative lighting prove that the Canterbury Players have enough talent to mount a highly satisfactory production. Even their choice of A Sleep of Prisoners may please those who like literary puzzles. They will find the play well worth an hour and a half of their time...