Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...release. One document already public is a note from Robert F. Kennedy, handwritten in January 1966: "Listening to my colleagues in Congress (including myself) on what to do and what not to do in Viet Nam must become somewhat discouraging at times. I thought it might give you some comfort to look again at another President, Abraham Lincoln, and at some of the identical problems and situations he faced that you are now meeting...
...historical-the chosen preservations that have influenced us in our reference to them. The 1800's, however, are historical enough for us to believe that they are real and not a warp of the present vortex, but they are also close enough in time for us to feel some comfort with them. The energies they generated are still around, still possible resolution to fine focus. The war for independence (Revolutionary) began a certain growth of sensibilities as, our backs turned safely to England, we merely walked a few short steps to the assumption that we had set our back-yard...
Elsewhere, thousands of citizens tackled a wide variety of Earth Week activities. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who spent ten days aboard Apollo 9, told a University of Houston audience that a space view of earth is no comfort. "Even at that distance," he said, "you can see evidence of pollution." Showing similar concern, the Ohio Public Interest Action Group launched a statewide fund-raising campaign to hire lawyers and scientists to represent the public in environmental cases. Goal...
...conclusions of the survey will offer cold comfort to the U.S. hierarchy, which, as it happens, commissioned the research. The bishops will discuss the findings at their semiannual meeting in Detroit next week as part of their preparation for the churchwide synod in Rome next fall. They will undoubtedly be disturbed by the survey's findings about celibacy and contraception, and they may also wince at the disclosure that the priests' liberal position on divorce is "remarkably different from the traditional one." Though the bishops may breathe a bit easier to learn that priests, by and large, support...
...Against the Ideology of Real Life: Godard attacks the problem of our potential acceptance of reactionary propaganda by questioning the ontology of each individual image in order to reveal the hidden ideology of every element-lurking bourgeois assumptions that give aid and comfort to the maintainers of the ruling order. In other words he exercises dialectically all unexamined values from his cinematic vocabulary. "Realistic" cinema becomes his most formidable enemy: metaphysical defender of "the ideology of real life." universalist, humanist justifier of the present politico-economic system, mystifier of the historical alternatives open to the oppressed. So when he presents...