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...difficulties of dismantling the Cold War bureaucracy, and no one has proposed the goals which a post-Vietnam foreign policy should pursue. Another East-West confrontation like the 1962 missile crisis-this time perhaps in Israel-might totally disorient the liberal isolationist impulse. The problem of aggression is the sleeper in the isolationist critique, a critique which does nothing more than ask America to be nice...
...parts of a separate bill aimed at subduing the organized underworld. Originally devised by another Democrat, Arkansas's John McClellan, the mobster measure was expanded with the help of Justice Department staffers and whisked through the Senate in January. Legal experts have now detected a startling number of sleeper clauses. Their objections have provoked close scrutiny from the House Judiciary Committee...
...SLEEPER (n); a record that has not achieved commercial success commensurate with its musical worth. It is such records, rather than ones that everybody has heard anyway or owns, that a reviewer should bring to his reader's attention...
...first Hartmann was tempted to clas sify the restless long sleepers as "well-compensated insomniacs" who had to spend more hours in bed simply to get enough sleep. He changed his mind with the discovery that long, short and average sleepers all spend about the same amount of time in what research ers call "slow-wave sleep," the deep and relatively dreamless state, totaling some 75 minutes a night, when people are presumed to get their real recu peration from the activities of the pre vious day. Additionally, Hartmann concluded that long sleepers spent nearly twice as much...
...sleep is dream sleep. In ad dition to the long sleeper's measurably greater need to dream - that is, to mull over the problems of wakeful life-Psychiatrist Hartmann proposes another function of sleep. Since the long sleeper shows more symptoms of emotional problems than the short sleeper, who resolutely avoids his problems anyway, it seems that he may use his hours in bed to give his subconscious sleeping self more time to examine these problems and, if possible, to work them...