Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inviting others along the way. Take his hand if you like. Ask whatever you like, in questions that are not. If you won't play, don't come along--they played a game for the self-in-dulgent, or, at most, for the activist or the idealist-realist, momentary comfort in the irrelevant. Why not ask? Only the wise can be humiliated...
...black men in the book are of similar caliber. For example, the reader meets only one free black man, and instead of living in the city as custom, common sense, comfort, and economic necessity would dictate, this man and his family are starving to death in the impoverished countryside. The man's only apparent function in the story is to show the inability of blacks to live without the guidance of white people and to verbally excoriate Nat's excessively cruel master. By contrast, the slaves are somewhat better fed and generate an aura of contentment. I noticed that some...
...dismayed by the severity of the attacks on Evtushenko, and points out that the poet, who is now 35, has long been treading a perilous double course between compliance and resistance, in a sincere struggle for the liberalization of Russia. "But you get tired, you get old, you want comfort," Hayward says. "Evtushenko is a decent person who has succumbed to pressures that are almost inhuman...
Dickey accepted the assignment because the astronauts have a deep sig -nificance for him. "Americans have sunk into the sloth of more and more comfort and convenience," he says. "Many want to give up and see life as essentially miserable. I see life as hardly explored yet. These space guys are showing that miracles can still happen. I was born believing in great efforts...
These days, Kafka's version is very much with us, and justly so. But like the people say, consider the alternative. In the extremely informal comfort of an Eliot House main dining room spotted with wrestling mats, army blankets, cushions and chairs, the next weekends offer a free, funny, and frequently poignant update on Hasek, in the form of a rare English language production of Bertolt Brecht's Schweyk in the Second World War. An update it is, for in his telling epilogue to the production, translator Charles Sabel would have it emphasized that even for folk heroes times change...