Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hurst, legal historian at the University of Wisconsin; George Kennan; Daniel Boorstin, of the University of Chicago; and Richard Hofstadter (who refused to speak with any undergraduates) of Columbia. H. C. Allen, Professor of American History at University College in London, will lecture March 19 on "America: Land of Comfort and Violence," while on a visit to compare the Warren Center to his American studies center in England...
...that it is not his patient's right to have these most private thoughts kept in confidence, how is the patient to know what other sensitive area will be beyond the good doctor's limits? If I were a student in need of psychiatric service, I would take little comfort from Dean Glimp's outrageous assertion that tutors must know about students with suicidal impulses "so we can keep an eye on him." How do we know who else such an over solicitious administrator will need to have followed by his spies? Homosexuals? Radicals? Under-Achievers? Poets...
...signs snuggle in compelling proximity. The principal practitioners of this profitable art are literary agents, the canny manipulators of today's flourishing writer's market. Authors and publishers alike agree that it is the agent who deserves the traditional flyleaf salute to the person without whose aid, comfort, understanding, affection, patience, encouragement and hard-eyed business sense this book could not have been sold...
However they handle their job, though, most agents are happy enough to participate in the publishing bonanza. But there are many who also fear that the payoff is getting too big for comfort. Says Jim Brown of James Brown Associates: "A man like Scott Meredith has hurt the industry by pressing for unrealistic advances in terms of what he is offering." Echoes Agent Robert Lescher: "I'm in the business of handling creative careers. I don't want a publisher turning sour on a writer because I negotiated too big an advance...
...found at any college. Sometimes the school is at fault, but when the dissatisfaction is confined to a small number, one tends to think the problems lie with the students. What perplexes and dismays many at Harvard is that this number has been growing past the point of comfort...