Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this sense that the two lovers are heading in the same direction without ever being at the same place simultaneously-that guides the action of the play. Tension suffuses the opening of each of the play's six scenes, as the pair try to recognize each other in the wake of the transformations wrought by time-In the last scene of the first act, for example, George-recently plagued by an annoying case of impotence-sees in his annual trip to California a potential source of relief. Instead, he encounters only additional frustration in the person of an eight-months...
...kids in the afternoon. He was underemployed. Calvin Coolidge slept twelve hours a night. There are those who claim that even that much sleep was not enough to get him going. Lyndon Johnson kept moving by insisting on an afternoon nap "with my britches off' and a cold wake-up shower with nozzle pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. Richard Nixon withdrew from the world for days to marshal his strength. Ford just keeps going...
...Richard G. Wake Memorial Trophy will remain at Columbia for the fourth straight year to commemorate Columbia's win over the Crimson wrestlers. 21-18, in New York City yesterday...
...wake of that demonstration, Yale President Kingman Brewster appointed a student-faculty committee, headed by Historian C. Vann Woodward, "to examine the condition of free expression at Yale." Early this month the panel declared that interference with free speech should be a punishable offense, even when talks are deemed "defamatory or insulting." The only exception would be "if a speech advocates immediate and serious illegal action, such as burning down a library, and there is danger that the audience will proceed to follow such an exhortation...
...lines that can bring People items to life are also sought over lunch and by telephone. Calling up Barbra Streisand or Paul Newman can be difficult. "It's not easy to get that one good quote from a celebrity," says him up at Macintosh, noon." "especially if you wake To illustrate the section, Assistant Picture Editor Michele Stephenson scans hundreds of photos for offbeat images of "name" names. "We're not just looking for any old king or billionaire," Stephenson says. "People have to have qualities that have captured the imagination of millions, like Jackie...