Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heightened by upwardly-mobile ambition. And though the hall and lawns continuously awe him, it is the rulers, the adults, the gentlemen and ladies who ignore him, who fascinate him. Even the hall can be a setting for childish games, and its acquiescent housekeepers offer some degree of home comfort. But the elder Maudsleys are to Leo mythical figures, inhabitants of yet-another distant country. Beneath the way of life they share with him, the feel incomprehensible things; Leo is determined to understand their recondite passions...
...behind the others, he placing his dry bathing-suit on her shoulders, and spreading her wet hair over it. It is late afternoon: a puff of breeze ruffles Marion's dress; and Leo seems part of the foliage in his new green suit. Marion laughs, and says, "What a comfort, your bathing suit on my shoulders." And, though Pinter's cunning dialogue reveals more of state-of-mind than of character, the lighting, mise-en-scene, and acting say most of what there is to be said about Burgess and the Maudsleys, Marion's capriciousness and Leo's devotion...
...relatively calm summer, however, is no cause for easy comfort. In many cases, the old anger has merely given way to despair or gone underground, surfacing in individual acts of terrorism. Several policemen-both black and white-were murdered in cold blood by blacks. Last month a police sergeant in San Francisco, John V. Young, was killed by a shotgun blast while he was sitting in the station house. Three days later, the San Francisco Chronicle received a note from "the George I. Jackson Assault Squad of the Black Liberation Army," which claimed to have committed the murder. "The rioters...
There can be small comfort for Washington in the fact that Bolivia's new military government last week professed its pro-American feelings. Thirty-eight years after Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy, 18 years after Dwight Eisenhower's Good Partnership, and a decade after the start of John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, the best that can be said for U.S. diplomacy is that Washington seems finally to have learned not to interfere in Latin American affairs. Now Washington faces a task that demands far more sophistication-maintaining forbearance, and even extending...
Blaming the System. So far, in varied sections of the U.S., the state of the economy does not seem to pose a fatal political threat to Nixon-yet. For the present, some Republicans take comfort from the fact that many people see Nixon as having inherited the mess from the Democrats. After a tour of southern Illinois. Norton Kay, a former Chicago political editor, reported that the President is "seldom blamed or mentioned. People talk about government as an abstraction rather than about Nixon as a person. They seem disillusioned with the System rather than with a party...