Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gentle the deer with solicitude Solace them with salt Comfort them with apples Prepare them for the rectitude Of Man who will come A stranger with the unfamiliar...
...Viet Nam conflict ends is apt to affect for years both the image Americans have of themselves and the image that the world has of the U.S. The U.S. should not leave Viet Nam in a way that divides the nation bitterly at home, gives excessive comfort to its enemies or undue doubts to its friends and allies...
Following a short intermission, all six musicians reappeared on the stage, divested of jackets and ties. Their new-found comfort and relief was reflected in a superb performance of Shubert's Cello Quintet. The piece requires a back and forth interplay of plucking between the violin and cello. This was done in such a way as to give the listener the impression of a teasing, question and answer conversation between the two instruments. Not once did the piece move slowly or the sound lose its rich quality. In the Allegretto especially, the opening theme was brought back with force...
...under which bishops and cardinals can more fully share power with the Pope. Paul also expressed the hope that "Christians who are not yet in full communion of the one only Church will one day be reunited in one flock with one shepherd only"-a statement that was no comfort to the ecumenical movement...
...primitive as the peasants themselves. The film's best moments are miniatures: the grotesque love story of a dwarf and a whore; the sudden hysterics of women keening over a dying child; a love-haunted, plague-struck woman who is offered dirisxian aid but spurns the comfort of heaven to sigh for her lost lover. The stretches between such moments are bare and boring. Moreover, Bunuei's anticlerical polemics add up to nothing more than creaky village atheism dressed in sombrero and serape...