Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grating"-Waltz of the Toreadors. But everything Anouilh does springs from a pervading and indivisible pessimism. He is a cynic uncongealed: the wound remains open. Abandoned ideals and buoyancies can be seen within. And when he turns on the times, his bite is bitter: "Give us a bit more comfort! That's our battle cry now. All the ingenuity of men, which was harnessed for so long to nobility and beauty, is now bent on finding something a bit softer to put under their bottoms. Contraptions to make our drinks cooler, our houses warmer, our beds softer...
...fancier. "Could Elmer still be alive?" Replied Miller: "I'm afraid Elmer passed on long ago." A woman reader wanted to know if her male canary, who spent narcissistic hours kissing himself in a mirror, needed a mate. Said Miller: "Give him the bird." But he was little comfort to the mother who wondered what to do about her son's turtle, which hadn't stirred in months and smelled funny. Miller's advice: "Burial...
Turning to Democratic politics, Rusher predicted that President Johnson would "swing over rather sharply to the left" in an attempt to "comfort and mollify" the liberals in his party. He said that Johnson appeared to be strong because he had not yet alienated specific groups by committing himself politically...
...football fans who prefer the comfort of an easy chair and a television set to the cold of Fenway Park in December, the biggest weekend of the year is coming up. On Saturday and Sunday of this week two league championships will be decided, and Boston area residents can see both...
...bewildering days when she had first moved into the White House, Jackie had often sought refuge from her worries while sitting alone in the Lincoln Room. "It was the one room in the White House with a link to the past," she once recalled. "It gave me great comfort . . . When you see the great bed, it looks like a cathedral . . . I felt a kind of peace in that room . . . I could really feel his strength." Now, she firmly told the family, her husband's funeral must be "as Lincolnesque as possible...