Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's zombies. Every once in a while, I jump into bed late, anxious to fall asleep before I have to wake up six hours later, and every once in a while, I end up simply not falling asleep at all. You might see me in class sometimes, zoned and exhausted. Or on my way to class, talking with a speed and energy remarkable even for a talkative person like me. Some people achieve a similar effect through alcohol or drugs, or incredibly large doses of caffeine. But my erratic situation, and probably that of most of my sleepless friends...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effects. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludcrous...
...Peter [Berkowitz] is the one and, pricking the balloon, he goes down and she has to go down in his wake....Politics won't permit otherwise...
...Crimson did that. In the last relay, senior Keiko Iwahara had an outstanding lead off leg, while sophomore Christen Deveney, Senior Sandy Stringfellow and Steffen not only kept the lead Iwahara gained, but left the Bulldog relays gasping for air amidst their wake...
...instructor pilots, busy trying to teach others to fly, had "generalized anger" about the T-3, an Air Force psychologist reported. And the cadets were uneasy too. "With two accidents in two years, I'm not entirely sure it's completely safe," Cadet Daniel Ronneberg told investigators. In the wake of the accident, the Air Force barred cadets from practicing forced landings. But two days after the second crash, the T-3s were ordered back into...