Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touched by her tiny stock of imagery." Throughout, Brook is keenly aware of the terror and distress that reside in dreams: his categories include Nightmare, Violence, the Absurd and Frustrations. Together they should engender enough insomnia for a lifetime. Instead, precisely the opposite occurs. For in the vastness of sleep, all countries are contiguous and all generations contemporary, their nightly symbols-animals, the sensation of flight, erotic pursuits-varying little from the pre-Christian epoch to the present. That disclosure makes this nightmarish, violent, absurd and frustrating book oddly reassuring: a flawed compendium, but an ideal companion for the bedside...
...effective replacements are assured. Also, verification of Soviet compliance with any "build-down" scheme would be extremely difficult. Finally, "build-down" has become an instant symbol of so-called bipartisan cooperation in support of arms control, when in fact it is merely an artificial contrivance to allow congressmen to sleep well after they approve MX. But the MX is the root of the problem. It sticks out like a sore thumb and is obviously the reason for the President's eagerness to accomodate the authors of "build-down". Just as painfully obvious is Congress duplicity in cooking up "build-down...
...HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN Marines were murdered in their sleep in Beirut yesterday, and the dominant feeling in this country is a combination of sadness, anger and frustration. Washington cannot punish the aggressors--we do not know for sure who they are and even if we did, the risk inherent in retaliation of involving American forces in a full-scale conflict is too great. And short of withdrawing the Marines, there isn't much Washington can do to protect the remainder of the contingent...
...water polo team in 1956 (Melbourne). During the Montreal Games in 1976, nearly cornered into observing his own family decree against summer television, Ueberroth had viewed the competition nightly with the sound turned down low in the darkened room of an elderly neighbor lady who was trying to sleep. He was such an unlikely proprietor of the Games that his reaction to the first feeler was laughter. He said...
...closed 30 schools because enrollment had dropped, a move that earned him many enemies in the community. Nor did he win friends among teachers by laying off 1,197 of them in 1979. Says Alioto: "Too many people in education are mealy-mouthed wimps. I think you can sleep better if you fight for what you believe...