Word: sleeps
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Hadzi works hard and fast. He always has. As a child during the Depression he shined shoes to earn cash. Working in his studio most nights until the wee hours, he averages four to six hours of sleep a night. More often than not, these work hours pay off. In 1979 the Archdiocese of Boston phoned him 10 days before the Pope was due to arrive to ask him to sculpt the processional crucifix. The artist did it in seven...
...hard to believe that this gregarious, cheerful young man spent days on end lying in the dark, hoping for sleep "because that was the one way to escape the pain and depression." He never ceased his long-distance political work or bailed out of classes altogether. But the costs cannot be recovered--the long periods of isolation, the decision to drop plans for a senior honors thesis. "It was going to be on Jacksonian era conceptions of the American Revolution....It was something that would have been the great challenge. It became impossible." He also lost an opportunity to travel...
...sleep well and I awake refreshed...
...seven to eight hours sleep at least four nights a week...
Werther's suicide for the love of Lotte inspired an epidemic of self-immolation in Germany in the 1770s, but history does not repeat itself in Lucio. True, he is in despair-life in Fascist Italy is intolerable and Beate refuses to sleep with him-but he is seeking ways to survive. Beate, on the other hand, wants to "carry despair to its logical conclusion, suicide." Their encounter, Lucio observes, had not been love, but death at first sight. Beate yearns for a suicide pact with Lucio that would be modeled on what she regards as an ideal death...