Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only on the preamble. Debate on the amendment's core might go on indefinitely, since it takes a two-thirds vote to impose cloture. The tone that it could take was suggested by Michigan Senator Robert Griffin's remark that the amendment would "give aid and comfort to the enemy...
...massacre broke last November, most Americans at first refused to believe that it had happened. When the basic facts became incontestable, many people still considered them too mundane to merit such a fuss or thought the whole thing ought to be kept quiet so as not to comfort the enemy. Anyone who can read these two books and still cling to either view has lost all sensibility or is beyond the reach of the written word...
Because of this, any sort of criticism of Seize the Time as literature would be greatly inappropriate. It really doesn't matter much if Bobby Seale's prose style strikes you as readable or not. As I read this book in the comfort of my room. I kept remembering that almost all the central characters were in exile, in jail, or dead. And that there was a good chance that, as I read, more Panthers would join them...
Words are all we have. They pillage or vivify mankind, thrust him into a million prisons, or urge his genius to touch just beyond its comfort. The condition of language at present may be compared, more or less unemotionally, to a stupefied, labyrinthine torture-house, which is nothing but unconnecting hallways, with only one way forward, the floor creeping with pursuant poison to the rear. Keep the words pure and the laws will be just, said Ezra Pound. It's an admonition, not a solution, The only way is poetry, for poets have less rubbish in their heads than other...
This unlikely group of characters endures at the center of a slight but very funny novel about the search for a happy life. Dissatisfied in various ways, they all look not for great wealth or passion or power, but merely for a little comfort. They are trying to make circumstance leave them in peace...