Word: comfortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that there is anything particularly beautiful or especially moving about blatant human grief and I do not draw any comfort out of the inter-position of another's pain and fears beside my cash and safety...
...Angeles' splendid new Music Center, 1,500 members of the Retail Clerks Union sat in red-plush comfort beneath crystal chandeliers. Before getting down to the business of a union meeting, they heard a concert climaxed by a specialized composition called The Shopping Center Blues. They chuckled appreciatively when Local Leader Joe Silva explained that his hoarseness was caused by "executive flu " De Silva noted that a minority of the Music Center's board had protested that a union meeting was not the sort of "cultural" activity for which the $32.2 million center (including $25,000 contributed...
...father, an Eire-iiber-alles bigot who delights in Hitler's early military victories. Not his complacent mother, not his studious brother, not his pretty sister nor even his student-nurse girl friend Sally-"a nun in mufti." In fact, about the only thing that gives him any comfort is something not even the angels could understand: modern poetry, and especially Wallace Stevens' lines...
...Launching Pad. Another factor in the new atmosphere has been the feeling that the church should be, as San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike puts it, "a launching pad, not a comfort station." American Christianity's desire to say and do something relevant about social problems of the day has propelled clergymen out of the pulpit and onto civil rights picket lines. "From there," says the Rt. Rev. James Montgomery, Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, "it is only another short step into deliberate partnership in the war on poverty and in educational projects." One reason that...
...matter to which no man should have to give a second thought: the color of his face. It is Thurman's personal interpretation of what segregation means to the Negro, to the white man and to the human spirit. His words, though softly spoken, will give comfort to none of the three...