Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dank Lubyanka prison, where political prisoners undergo their initial conditioning; in his novel The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote how its warders clicked their tongues to warn each other whenever they were escorting a prisoner: "One prisoner must never be allowed to encounter another, never be allowed to draw comfort or support from the look in his eyes...
...assault on his codes brings intolerable pain. He is incapable of philandering-one antidote for marriage-poisoning urged on him. He is equally incapable of ricocheting from marriage to divorce to marriage to divorce. This is what makes the play, and its dilemma, undeviatingly honest. Anderson offers a final comfort that is small, but not cold: the heart is the only broken instrument that works...
John Sack's book focuses on Calley the individual, and it helps to dispell some of the more comforting liberal myths about the man. If we can believe that Calley is sub-normal, retarded, and robotic, we can comfort ourselves that his decisions were aberrations and that we could never be led to be like him. Sack interviewed Calley on and off for more than a hundred days, and he has constructed this book out of fragments of Calley's own sentences. Sack says in his introduction that "I liked being with Lieutenant Calley. To me he seemed sensible, intelligent...
...Sandy Duncan stars in this show, which owes nothing to the 1956 Audrey Hepburn movie musical and everything to TV's That Girl and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Sandy plays an aspiring teacher working her way through college doing TV commercials. The package is too cute for comfort...
...Imagine!" Liz laughs, a laugh that comes too easy and is turned against herself once too often for your own comfort if not also hers...