Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generally laudable performance, his somewhat nasty and unnatural laugh, that echoes throughout the play, came to represent the outside world, the spectators, laughing at his comrades, instead of with them or for them. His swaggering and posturing, his gambling with cigarettes or human lives, is often too funny for comfort or credibility. A continuous lack of subtlety brought out the more humorous sides of the situation, and only towards the very end, in a scene like the one in which he gets Chief Bromden (Frank Savino) to talk, does the underlying seriousness become apparent. Faced with the prospect of remaining...
...other minorities. Nixon played on this with his continued attacks on the "welfare ethic," which in a sense was to the '72 drive what "law-and-order" was to the '68 campaign. The nation's mood coming out of the '60s was predominantly one of truculent complacency, rediscovered material comfort, a weariness with those who criticized the U.S., a continued fondness for the old values and much of the old politics. Last spring and summer, with the rise of the McGovern movement, some journalists and politicians believed that somehow the center had fallen out of American politics, that...
...Luce and His Empire, Swanberg 9-The Joy of Sex, Comfort 10-Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939, Planner
Morse seems to be finding the age issue nearly insuperable. He is 72, and was stripped of any Senate seniority when he left the chamber in 1969. Hatfield, on the other hand, is 50 but looks 40. Morse could take some comfort, however, from the fact that polls of the 18-to-29-year-old group showed Morse a favorite over Hatfield...
...Nixon people understand better than any of us that the sun has gone. They are glad of it-it was always too bright-and because they are glad of the darkness. Nixon and his gang of moles have known best how to lead and comfort the millions of Americans who have been stumbling about trying to adjust their eyes...