Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treated these men badly--all had been poor, suffering the resulting humiliations. Kondry, as an example, had been through a reform school, labelled "Reformed," and thrown back into society only to find he couldn't get a job. China, for them, offers material promise, but not the emotional comfort the men need. The dilemma is captured in a former farmboy (Andrew Wilking) who can't quite master the prevalent jargon. When Barnholdt goads him with stories about home, the boy shouts, "Stop talking like that or next accusation period, I'm going to criticize you. You asshole-aggressive...
...great buildings of the 1960s, a richly textured, concrete-and-brick structure that reflects the influence of the late architect Le Corbusier and, in its emphatic use of raw concrete, of the contemporary English "Brutalists" as well. But to most citizens, it looked too for-tresslike for comfort...
...hostile nations of the Middle East greeted the new move warily, since direct big-power participation in the search for a settlement will inevitably bring weight to bear on them to make concessions. Israelis took some comfort from the avowed U.S. intention to bolster the mission of U.N. Special Representative Gunnar Jarring, and expected no change in Washington's support for a "contractual" rather than an "imposed" solution. But they did worry that the U.S. would seek to influence Israel to vacate the conquered Arab territories. "We may find ourselves faced by political pressures of a nature never encountered...
...himself seems seized by a feeling of self-confidence and assurance that he has not always shown in the past. He is thoroughly at home in the White House. Unlike Lyndon Johnson, Nixon seems to draw an almost visceral comfort from his new habitat. Far from feeling claustrophobically fenced in, as his immediate predecessors often did, Nixon luxuriates in the ambience of privacy and power. For Kennedy and Johnson, "home" always seemed somewhere else. For Nixon, a man without deep geographic roots, home is now the apex to which he aspired for so long...
...church can do more to fight racism, poverty and disease around the world. To Blake, such enlightened concern seems ample evidence of the organized church's contemporary relevance. Despite currents of anti-institutionalism sweeping the globe, he finds more people than ever before turning to the comfort of the church. "Religion," he says, "is not a problem but an answer...