Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...past decade replaying and reworking "the Viet Nam experience," reporting it and satirizing it, sending it up an apocalyptic river, holding it to our conscience like The Deer Hunter's revolver. It's over, already. We've heard that song, memorized it, sung it in our sleep, are sick unto bloody death...
...LIES in peaceful quiet sleep, A vision came unbidden to his head: He saw the birds that fly, the beasts that creep, He saw the teeming living and the dead. Surveying all, he looked first to the north And at the pole, he caught sight of a gleam; A Cadillac in chrome was riding forth, Pulled by a twelve-man transition team. "What can this mean?" asks Bok of his stern guide, Who answers thus in Slavic-sounding voice: "This year a new man takes the Yuletide ride, Delivering gifts to rich and poor--rejoice!" Bok looks puzzled, turns...
Many students also complain that the days tend to blur together because of the redundancy of the daily routine of eat, go to class, study, sleep. "All you do at Wellesley is study--it's taken for granted that you'll be in the library every night and on Sundays," Trippe says. "I thought that the swim team would be an outlet for me, but even with them the big thing is to dress really fast in the locker rooms after meets so that we can get back to the libraries...
...cold to study, too cold to sleep; and since there's no other place to study after midnight, it affects our performance in school," Lisa M. Alvarez '84, a Weld resident, said yesterday. She added that many students living in the dormitory had colds and one student had contracted strep throat...
Swimmers put more time and more effort into their sport than almost any other team on campus. From October right through March the swim team holds workouts twice a day, including weight sessions on Nautilus every afternoon. While most sleep through the early mornings, swimmers are doing their first workout from 6:45 to 8:15 a.m., and afternoons they return for another two-to three-hour session. On an average day each swimmer does about 400 laps of a 25-yard pool in varying combinations of strokes and intervals, staring at the black line on the bottom...