Word: slumber
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...slumber that is my Saturday morning is payment for my nocturnal brilliance. It is proof that one can seize the day; the whole day. Unfortunately, Saturday mornings blend into Saturday afternoons where the peace and relaxation of the weekend becomes overshadowed by the approaching workweek...
...awaken his country from its isolationist slumber, Roosevelt began a long, urgent, eloquent campaign of popular education, warning that unchecked aggression abroad would ultimately endanger the U.S. itself. "Let no one imagine that America will escape, that America may expect mercy," he said. The debate in 1940-41 between isolationists and interventionists was the most passionate political argument of my lifetime. It came to an abrupt end when Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor...
...Have a slumber party--pajamas, sleeping bags, Cool Ranch Doritos and all. Make...
Initially, his characters' worries carry a touching level of insight into the sources of modern emotional malaise. Karen, awaking from eighteen years of slumber, describes how suddenly "nobody seems to be able to endure being by themselves...but at the same time they're isolated. People work much more, only to go home and surf the Internet and send e-mail rather than calling or writing a note or visiting each other." Yet as the story plows on, the barrage of philosophical ramblings begin to take on a preachy tone which descends into irritating evangelism. In the end, ghost-jock...
...couldn't possibly get by with any less than six hours of sleep every night. Tales of students with the ability to pull one or even two all-nighters in a row continue to amaze me. Yet Jonathan Coe's The House of Sleep puts even these feats of slumber to shame; insomnia, somnambulism and narcolepsy are among the much more serious disorders with which his characters are attempting to come to terms. Coe tells a well-constructed story in which the themes of unrequited love, sexual identity, the ups and downs of the film industry and psychotherapy are intricately...