Word: sleeps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
America is awakening to its complicity in the crime which is apartheid. It would be a travesty if Harvard, America's oldest and most prestigious university, continued to sleep. Harvard must go beyond tokenism; it must reject passivity. The bloodshed at Sharpeville, Crossroads and Soweto is too high a price to pay for an education. Harvard and other universities must cut their ties to South Africa; they must put people ahead of profit, that which is right ahead of that which is convenient. I join the call for total divestiture...
...driving them deep into the desert and leaving them. Troll-busting attacks on the homeless in Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz are sharply down from 1984. But the intimidation appears to have taken its toll nonetheless. "After the attacks and the shooting into the bushes and cars where they sleep, a lot of the street people have left town and haven't come back," says Peter Carota, who runs the St. Francis Catholic Kitchen in Santa Cruz. "This hateful talk and terrorism have been very effective...
Year-round training, swimming laps while most other students sleep, spending summers away from home and being weighed down by the constant pressure to produce-is it all worth...
...always knows the answers, scornful of the peabrain who thinks she knows the answer but then cannot get it out. The hands of the clock drag, boredom sets in. The dancers wriggle and twist, twirling their legs around their chairs in every possible expression of restlessness. The final deep sleep is roused only by a relentless, and all too familiar, bell...
...companionship others for an erotic toy. Theroux details her daily outline, a seven mile run around Hyde Park in the morning, seminars and papers at the institute, and Karim or Salim at night, while the reader can't help but wonder when this girl is going to get some sleep...