Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury a religious novel? Faulkner himself was a somewhat cynical agnostic, and few readers would find much spiritual comfort in his dour chronicle of the Compson family. But to Professor Nathan Scott of the University of Chicago Divinity School, the answer is clearly yes. Behind the novel's secular fa?ade, he argues, lies a poetic expression of what theology calls kairos-the divine gift of time span in which man exists on earth...
Then this latest announcement is surely a tribute to Harvard ingenuity. All the freshmen who are now assigned to Houses they did not want--presumably, the usual 800 or 900 as in past years--can comfort themselves with the thought that they, like the Greek tragic hero, are victims of their own great qualities. Those few who wind up in a House they wanted, can feel that the strong urgings of their House Master won over the Committee's desire to cut them into eight pieces so as to make sure each House got its fair share. Surely, then...
...University trimmed about $500,000 from the lowest of eight construction bids, bringing the contract figure to $9,460,000. L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president said yesterday that the cost-cutting will not affect Mather's "outside appearance, size, or living comfort...
...they merely opposed. The unions accuse them of acting like reactionaries-of dismantling the German welfare system because they voted to impose small prescription and health-insurance fees on pensioners, of sabotaging the coal-mining Ruhr because they refuse to block U.S. oil imports, and of giving aid and comfort to capitalists because Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller has pumped government spending into industry instead of giving bigger unemployment benefits to workers. The discontent has grown so great that it has threatened to undercut the positions of the Socialist leaders in Bonn and to paralyze the workings of the coalition...
...easy to take offense at this choice of words. No one likes to be told that his employer or his teachers are implicated in the mass murder of a people who pose little threat to this nation's security or economic interests. Nor is it much comfort to embrace the notion that the U.S. is engaged in the holier tasks of "nation-building" and preventing a bloodier conflict with Red China. Most people at Harvard, even those who affect a "tough-minded" outlook on American activities abroad, cannot help but be shaken by the tag of "murderer...