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...notes: "A man may choose to be a milkman because he likes to get up at 4 a.m., not because he has trained himself to wake early." Other psychologists agree that recalcitrant risers simply do not like the activity that awaits them and subconsciously would rather stay in the womb of sleep. It is also well known that early-rising spouses often suffer attacks of fury at the sight of a still-sleeping partner. The only relief: to wake him or her by slamming doors, turning on radios, or sending relays of children to jump up and down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychophysiology: Getting Along with Getting Up | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...recently told the New York Academy of Medicine, that far too many hysterectomies are still being done on women under 40, when all that is really needed in many cases is a much more modest operation to remove benign fibroid tumors from the muscle wall of the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gynecology: Too Many Hysterectomies? | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...understand it I agree with it) is precisely that you cannot destroy something unless you already have the potential to build in its place. (This, I take it, is something akin to what Marx means when he talks of the maturation of socialist forces of production within the womb of capitalism...

Author: By Timothy D. Gould, | Title: An Open Letter to Liberals at Harvard From An Unrestful Radical | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

...turned-up collars of their wide-welt cord jackets that "there's too much tinsel in the air." But just when it's getting the coldest, the days growing shortest, and the future looking most barren who can deny that we all like to return to the warm womb of familiar old Christmas? Who can say it isn't great to see that fecund, fetid growth of oozing summer at last driven from the earth as the land is purified by the cold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gifts For Each and Everyone | 12/12/1968 | See Source »

...Ulrich Franzen is a master of the broken line and the ingratiating curve. Nothing is rigid and antiseptic. Masculinity and femininity thrust, parry, yield and wed in a superlative marriage of craft and art. The main theater itself, a semicircular urn of intimacy seating 798, is a kind of womb with seats. Decked out in soft brown and nuzzling together like cattle, the rows of theater seats are concentrated reminders that the playgoer is in an edifice indigenous to the Southwest, a vivid memory link with the adobe hut and the Alamo. Aided by the Ford Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: The Playhouse Is the Thing | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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