Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOLIVIA Jail withAll the Comfort For a man sentenced to 30 years in prison, French Intellectual Régis Debray enjoys many of the comforts of home. At the officers' club in the south ern Bolivian town of Camiri, where he has been locked up for helping Che Guevara's guerrillas in their abortive attempt to topple the Bolivian government, Debray's jailers generously allow him to have a radio, his books, paper and pencils. Food is sent in from a restaurant. Last week the Bolivian army threw in the ultimate, if only temporary, comfort: a wife...
...bilingual Québecois who gets along as well at the mannerly teas of the English-speaking majority as at mercurial political rallies in Quebec and Montreal. A firm opponent of separatism, Trudeau believes that the only way to discourage it is to make French Canadians feel as comfort able elsewhere in Canada as they are in French-speaking Quebec...
...replacement with even more room. Mystery Writer Erie Stanley Gardner likes houseboats so much that he operates two of them on California's Sacramento River. "They're my floating offices, the only place in the world where I can really get away from it all in comfort," says Gardner. But why two? "At night we moor them about 50 ft. apart, and the women take over one and the men the other," he explains. "That way the women can gab all they want, and we can play penny ante in peace...
Colleagues say that it was a great comfort to know that Professor Owen was here; students remember his constant efforts to build their self-confidence. His own words on the once-new House system gives a better glimpse of his nature: "One could almost imagine tutors being assigned to tuck the boys in at ten o'clock. (In a Master's weaker moments he sometimes regrets that this spectre never materialized...
...that Pope Paul advised against in his Christmas plea for "Peace of Heart" in all men. Perhaps Dylan has found "Peace of Heart." And his record gives some hope to its listeners, a little strength of mind to face a grisly political milieu that threatens to overwhelm us. Cold comfort...