Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shows little interest in the marketing and profit potentials of his designs. In any event, many of them are unpatentable-a fact that may help explain why the industries that consult him sometimes treat his suggestions as trade secrets. As Tichauer himself says: "Efficiency is the by-product of comfort. The enterprise that manufactures no sore backs, shoulders, wrists or behinds is at a competitive advantage over one with suffering workers." But Tichauer's basic humanitarianism shows through his practicality. "I don't design," he insists. "I fertilize. And I prevent sore elbows." He seems quite content with...
...long life, even in so bloody and changeable a period, has its compensations. "As a member of the Western middle class," Toynbee wrote in a letter to American friends, "thinking in terms of personal comfort, I would have chosen a Victorian 80 years that just missed both the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War. But a time that is uncomfortable for a bourgeois is interesting for an historian. I am both an historian and a bourgeois, but I am an historian first and foremost...
...stylish whirl into another world. Ethel's special triumph has been to maintain normalcy. She has simply carried on, as best she could, the kind of existence that Bobby would have pursued had he lived. Countless other widows have had to do as much, most of them with less comfort from friends, family and position. Yet to acknowledge this takes nothing away from the energetic gallantry with which Ethel has managed...
...Giving Comfort...
...Pratt has always been a misfit-he says-though he does have the courage to admit his fears and weakness. Horn emerges as a dabbler in medieval studies and essentially a moderate leader, doomed to be destroyed by more brutal and extremist forces. These exchanged confidences, however, offer no comfort...