Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the tough quizzing by Congress, Shultz could take comfort in the fact that one elected official remained solidly on his side. At his press conference Wednesday night, the President was asked whether Shultz had failed in Lebanon and should resign. Said Reagan: "I have seen that talk, and I think it's disgraceful. He has done a splendid...
...policemen walk on fault lines In six novels and one nonfiction work, Joseph Wambaugh has followed their uncertain footsteps, recording the gallows humor and suicidal despair of California's blue knights. But readers have generally been able to take comfort in the notion that the men were, after all, fictive; surely real life was less melodramatic. In this tragic documentary, no such consolations are possible...
...primary there is a tendency not to "waste votes," Clymer says. Some may gain comfort in casting "symbolic votes"--ones for candidates whose ideas the voter agrees with but who have no chance of winning. "But others could say, 'I should vote for the guy I like second best because my guy has no shot, and I don't want my least favorite candidate to win,'" Clymer says...
...natural voice and sounds uncomfortably like those of other playwrights. There are Neil Simonesque one-liners: "Life is summer camp, and death is lights-out." Ibsenesque dialectic about values: "God found God, and it was Man: God has sat up there believing in us." Albee-like catharsis: "My only comfort is knowing that my life is actually as empty as it feels." Moreover, the equivocal closing scenes of reconciliation between the doctor and his father seem anticlimactic after the keenly perceived torments of his marriage. Somerville and Scheller ably play the wife and son, and Cronyn invigorates the ill-defined...
Malcolm X trumpeted the need for radical change and a reexamination of a system which distributes a poorer way of life to one segment of the population while another lives in relative comfort. At the same time he managed to convey a new sense of worth to Afro-Americans and a sense of worth of unity for all people of color...