Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...geopolitical implications. If pure hearts no longer prevail, what then is the future of the Soviet communal ideal? Perhaps the senses should now be allowed to soar in Russia, personal competitiveness be exalted, and the model of the disciplined intellect be scrapped in favor of the search for self-comfort in cars, cuisine and water beds. And if a brainy kid from Brooklyn becomes the all-American hero, should not the U.S. close its bars, shutter its stadiums, and encourage its citizens to march off to libraries to explore the storehouses of knowledge? What good are pleasure and profits when...
...Adlai Stevenson on principle because he was right. Being the underdog doesn't bother us." Union leaders also worry that failure to support the top of the ticket will hurt other candidates on the ballot and jeopardize Democratic control of Congress. Traditionally, labor can expect little aid and comfort from Republicans...
...Dubos, unlike Roszak, is not possessed by a thesis. While deploring man's policy of conquest toward nature, he denies masochistic readers the tidy comfort of feeling that ecological abuses are the exclusive products of the Judaeo-Christian tradition and modern technology. Plato, he points out, testified to the deforestation of Greece. Far from reverencing life, men (Arcadian as well as Promethean) have always been inclined to operate on the theory: "If it moves, kill...
...There is comfort in the fact that even in age the individual cannot be reduced to mere cardiographic blips and statistical abstracts. There is also a certain ease in nostalgia for times when the "old could still be helpful," when they could envisage the future...
...vehicles enable campers to travel in comfort and yet avoid the rising costs of motel rooms and restaurant meals. Recreational vehicles range from ingenious $350 pop-up tent trailers to deluxe $4,000 travel trailers pulled by automobiles and $20,000 self-propelled motor homes. Buyers tend to be about 45 years old, earn at least $12,000 a year and spend an average of 34 days a year traveling...