Word: comfortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nabokov's truths, and Ada, will certainly unhouse many readers from the comfort of their passive reading habits...
...Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying from their natural nooks upon the love life of their parents." Nabokov may yet get his wish to see Shakespeare in heaven, laughing at Freud (in hell, naturally) for his bad interpretations of Hamlet, Lear and Macbeth. But how much comfort the scene would give him is debatable. From Nabokov's point of view, the electrical and chemical control of the brain, which seems to be rendering Freudian theory irrelevant, will hardly help the freedom of the individual imagination...
...Harvard professor yesterday told a conference on high speed ground transportation at Carnegie-Mellon University that proposed 300-mile-per-hour trains may create problems of health and comfort for passengers...
...have a simple solution to the problems of highway/airway congestion and frustration: take the train. I've just returned from a round trip by train, New York to Miami, and it was a dream of comfort and efficiency. Board in midtown any morning, no queues, no long walks; baggage goes with you. Air-conditioned coaches are attractive, rooms/roomettes with private bath immaculate. Porters are cheerful, friendly, solicitous, dining cars spotless and there's TV in the club...
Regardless of just what may ail the newborn baby, the place to begin improving his chances for survival is in the delivery room, said Dr. Karlis Adamsons of Columbia University. As long as obstetricians use anesthetics and other drugs for the mother's (and their own) convenience and comfort, he said, they must improve surveillance of the infant during delivery. This means that they must use new techniques of sampling the baby's blood and monitoring its heart rate even before birth...