Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What trips Bert up is his decision to live in the suburbs with his wife and five children. In the wealthy town of Bloodbury, Bert is appalled by the comfortable banality of the faith practiced at St. Jude's-a church that strikes him as a mere "antiseptic comfort station." The wheyfaced priests at St. Jude's, "moving knowingly from the book to the cruets," seem to be "a million light years" away from Father Danny. Even Bert's wife fails him; her romantic notion of her husband is that he is "her serene man of faith...
...winners snake-danced around U.S. college towns all through the night. And even the losers-for once-could take comfort in how the game was played. For in 1963 it is played by brilliant quarterbacks who spin and dance and fill the air with leather. 150mething Borrowed. College football has neither the studied grace nor the unbridled violence of the pro game. Its quarterback stars are not polished professionals who read the Wall Street Journal, belong to the P.T.A., and get birthday cards from their insurance agents. Their game is still a game. They make mistakes, and if they ever...
...great pity," Mark Twain said of Jane Austen, if they allowed her to die a natural death." There is a large, timid, hardly vocal class of people who feel the same way about Henry James. Those who have struggled unhappily through the lessons of the Master will find comfort at last in the breezy iconoclasm of Maxwell Geismar's Henry James and the Jacobites...
...outset, play stayed too close to the Crimson end zone for comfort, but Harvard slowly forced Villanova all the way back. Team play by flyhalf Ross Shell, center Ray Vickers, and wing forward Lee Freeman resulted in wing Tag Sweeney's try half way through the first period. A successful conversion boosted the score...
...Gold. The Russians were hesitant to submit an official or der, wanted advance assurance from Washington that it would be approved. President Kennedy was reluctant to commit himself until he got assurance from congressional conservatives that they would not clobber him at some future date for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Compounding confusion, Premier Khrushchev made it sound as if he no longer wanted the wheat by declaring: "If we use bread economically, the resources we now have will be sufficient for the normal supply of the population." Taking Khrushchev's words to mean that Russia...