Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asked, "even when she's a lawful wife?" Like a good father, he gave his discarded loves to his son, but Dumas fils eventually complained about the hand-me-downs: "You know, Father, it's a great bore, you always giving me your old mistresses to sleep with and your new boots to break in!" Retorted Dad: "You should look on it as an honor. It proves you have a thick organ and a narrow foot...
...school's fast academic track is hard on new students. Some cry themselves to sleep in their first few weeks. Says one student: "If you don't work, you're dead." Adds Senior Deborah Rhodes: "If I'm sick I go to class anyway. Because I'll be sicker if I stay away." The academic pressure tends to do away with social snobbery among its 991 students. Says Mark Driscoll, 22, now a Harvard junior: "It's the only community I've seen in which all the diverse people blend in a very...
...even during an election campaign. Though Begin supporters denied the charges of electioneering, there was little doubt that his anti-German tirade was popular at home. Begin seemed downright pleased by the diplomatic havoc he had wrought. Said he: "I won't lose even a moment's sleep...
...very often that the Harvard men's tennis team gets to sleep in the same hotel, play on the same courts, or even breathe the same air as the elites of college tennis. In fact, it's never happened before...
Oblomov is not a surprise. If the Soviets cannot make a decent adaptation of one of their own literary treasures, who can? And it is a delight, faithful to the soulfully comic spirit of Goncharov's novel-about a man who would rather sleep than fight the modern world-yet gracefully free-spirited in using cinema shorthand to keep the story moving...