Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy sailed into the second quarter under a rainbow of brightening statistics-and several ominous clouds. Chances for a rapid return to full, noninflationary prosperity remain remote. And the potential for trouble ahead, notably in the critical areas of jobs and prices, gives Richard Nixon scant room for comfort in an election year. Yet there is compelling evidence that the economy is making sturdy progress toward recovery, and is likely to gain speed in the months ahead. Says Arthur Okun, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "The news that the economy is moving at a good clip...
...Harvard Cabaret took time out of its regular scheduling of dramatic performances last weekend to present Granfalloon in concert at Currier House. The group smoothly opened the show with Chicago, one of their better efforts, marked by changing rhythms and the country comfort tone of Chris Hunt's mandolin. As in this case, most of the Falloon's material is original. Only three of the eighteen songs performed during the two sets were borrowed from other professional artists. Their musical range can produce the lyrical intensity of a dramatic poetry reading or the funky folk sound of a group like...
...earthly, naturalistic life in Colchis with its many bloody rituals is contrasted to the more civilized life of Corinth, where people live in houses and walk on tended lawns. Medea, more pagan than Jason, misses her old life, and Jason, who neglects her, is little comfort. Using what little magic is left to her, she contrives to murder the princess who has replaced her in Jason's heart, but her own children she kills with a knife...
...there, with a sense of being too late, passed by, stuck-but she doesn't burst into tears. The days of weeping are over. In spite of the desolation she feels, she knows that she is not alone; she has company and they are legion. There is enormous comfort in knowing that. And knowing that is one of the big changes in her life...
...does not advocate euthanasia. "We are not supposed to shorten life," he says. "But there is a limit to what we ought to do to prolong it." The marantologist, he suggests, would not only recognize these limits but help the public do so as well. The result-peace, comfort and relief for the medically hopeless-would benefit both patient and physician. "Marantologists would not always look on death as an enemy, but often as a friend," concludes Poe. "They would have their vision extend beyond life into eternity...