Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shouting Match. The revival of the bloc system brought scant comfort to one country that is perilously caught both geographically and ideologically between the two blocs. It is Yugoslavia, whose President, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, not only was the first Eastern European ruler to achieve his independence from the Soviet overlordship but also served as an inspiration to Czechoslovak Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek in his ill-starred search to find a measure of freedom within Communism. The recent Soviet press campaign against Tito ("lover of counter-revolution") and his country is almost as bitter as the one against West...
...left. To youth's search for spontaneity and sensual gratification, he offers a 45-year-old's caution: "The best things in life were most difficult to reach, for they protected themselves, so beware of finding your true love in a night." In fact, Mailer provides no comfort for any cause or creed. "There is no history without nuance," he writes, and in all his nuances there is the darkness of many nights...
...into a film of coruscating irony. Instead, Richardson has chosen to subordinate the drama to an illustrated primer on sociology. With facile juxtapositions, he shuttles between the airless, reeking slums and the sunlit gardens of the Victorian aristocracy. The bloody flogging of a sergeant is contrasted with the gleaming comfort of an officers' mess. Richardson sporadically punctuates the action with animated cartoons of the Russian bear and the British lion ruffling the feathers of the Turkish turkey. The animations, done in the style of period Punch cartoons, are wittily rendered by Richard Williams. But when they work, they vitiate...
...circle of hell is peopled by the great men of antiquity?Homer, Socrates, Plato?who, too valuable to be thrown into the pit, were consigned to limbo. Mavrino is an institute carrying out KGB research projects, and as a prison it is bearable. There is meat. There is some comfort. There are even women. Yet this is still slave labor of the mind, and transfer to the labor camps can happen at the whim of an "administrative decision...
Seating by Computer. Brown Brothers Harriman saw to everyone's comfort with the best of banker-like touches. Computers matched the guests' characteristics to promote compatible seating at dinners. There was an armored car to carry valuables from the Olympic Hotel to Union Station while Chairman William M. Allen of Boeing (a Brown Brothers client) entertained the group at his home after a tour of his company's Renton plant. Then everybody got aboard two 20-car Union Pacific special trains for the long run to Sun Valley, Idaho. There, behind closed doors, they took part...