Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the news reached Bangladesh that Mujib had been freed, Dacca be gan preparing a stupendous homecoming for its national hero. All week long the capital had been electric with expectation. In the wake of the first reports that his arrival was imminent, Bengalis poured into the streets of Dacca, shouting, dancing, singing, firing rifles into the air and roaring the now-familiar cry of liberation "Joi Bangla." Many of the rejoicing citizens made a pilgrimage to the small bungalow where Mujib's wife and children had been held captive by the Pakistani army. The Begum had spent...
These actions come in the wake of the announcement by Stanford president, Richard W. Lyman, that he supported the findings of a faculty board of inquiry which called for Franklin's ouster. Lyman's decision made it virtually certain that the Board of Trustees will vote to dismiss Franklin when they meet to decide the case January...
...Eliot begged him for an autographed picture. Thornton Wilder found him sequestered in Finnegans Wake.* The first man on the moon mimicked his fluid slouch. Clearly, Groucho Marx is a man of parts, and eight of those parts are preserved in this collection of uncritical, oversized photographs and classic film routines...
...keep one. It would be priceless. Not in terms of money, but the impressions that will be lost. Now and then I do put something on the Dictaphone and give it to Rose Woods and tell her not to type it up but save it. At night, I usually wake up between 12 and 2 when my mind is clear and make some notes. I never get out of bed, though, because then I would wake up fully. The next morning I look at the notes in the light of day." Near the bed is a white phone marked with...
...type, throwing scores at people or eating the telephone," he says. "I'm a perfectly ordinary bloke who happens to be musical director of the Royal Opera. Of course, I have to play the role of the chap who is never flustered, always self-confident. But when I wake up in the night I find there are pieces of my fingers all over the pillow...