Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite their revealing interest in politics, most of those choosing Quincy made little attempt to conceal their attraction to its physical facilities. In answer to "Why did you pick this House?" one student wrote "material comfort," another, "Go down and take a look for yourself...
...more involved in preparing to win big himself in 1964 than he is with the immediate problems of Democrats who will run in 1962. In fact, many Democrats feel that with Brother Ted's announcement for the Senate, the so-called Kennedy dynasty is looming too large for comfort, and is bound to give the Republicans ammunition...
Without much else to feed on, Cubans had to take what comfort they could from that...
...novels of Peter De Vries, life's devious ways have been crosscurrents in a happy sea of absurdity. In Comfort Me with Apples and The Tunnel of Love, adultery was the only way to hold a marriage together; there was power in futility, wisdom in platitudes and, of course, virtue in vice. But always there have been signs that inside the humorist, a serious novelist was struggling to get out. Now, in The Blood of the Lamb, absurdity becomes tragic, and De Vries says what has been on his lips all along: life is a joke...
Piel first raises the serious matter of general scientific ignorance. People have learned to accept science as a source of endless improvement, material comfort, and abundance, yet most the exact workings of science are mysterious. "Ironically, science itself seems to have fallen heir to much of what remains of the frightened awe formerly accorded to the outer darkness...