Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back to Tennis. Columbia's administrators can find little comfort in the fact that the radical Strike Coordinating Committee, which led the rebellion, is in its customary state of confusion over tactics. Some of its leaders want a massive new confrontation with the university as classes open, on the theory that administrators will react harshly, thus generating sympathy for the militants. Others have proposed more subtie harassments, such as gumming up registration by filing wrong information on computer cards. In any case, the administration is preparing for the worst. Last week workmen were installing thick, rockproof Plexiglas windows...
...Shall Be Released", all Dylan, is like an old time spiritual, the comfort Dylan needed before he could write the far-away, preaching songs of John Wesley Harding...
...this program for five years, working as a keypunch operator, singing occasionally, dropping in and out of three colleges, and drifting to New York and San Francisco. What did she get out of it all? Among other things, a longshoreman's vocabulary, a cheerful habit of drinking Southern Comfort by the bottle ("I may own that company some day"), and moods that she describes as "superhorrible downs." Then, after joining Big Brother two years ago, "I made feeling work for me through music...
...reject the gloomy view that man is in a dismal rut. Modern existence, precarious, chaotic and murderous as it is, is a vast improvement over the ignorance, superstition, violence and disease of earlier periods. They ask: Are we ready to scuttle the technology that has spread food, home ownership, comfort, education and lei sure beyond any precedent? Would we rather have lived under the laws of the Athenian Republic or the Roman Empire than under constitutions that give us habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious and intellectual freedom and the emancipation of women...
...person who desires to consume, then you won't mind so much the social differences between classes, and you can live easily with the free enterprise system. But there's a comfort in being free of the constant exposure to economic competition, to the struggle to earn money. Not everyone likes this atmosphere...