Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laffer's reasoning that businessmen and consumers will spend every cent they get their hands on [Feb. 22] works only in the 72° comfort of his classroom. After the worst inflation in 20 years, retail sales do riot indicate that consumers are spending every cent they get. Just as business is being given a tax decrease in the form of accelerated depreciation, so also should consumers get a tax cut. Then they will regain their confidence and start spending again...
...there is considerable comfort in the knowledge that many of us will never see Syracuse again...
...innovators of 1971. Many of them have dropped such devices as the electrified guitar and wall-to-wall loudspeaker banks; they are returning instead to the piano, or to the more intimate acoustic guitar. Offering a kind of Americana rock, they are likely to celebrate such things as country comfort, Carolina sunshine, morning frost in the Berkshires. What all of them seem to want most is an intimate mixture of lyricism and personal expression?the often exquisitely melodic reflections of a private...
James Taylor likes to say: "I find comfort in things like earthquakes and eclipses of the moon because I have no hand in them. They relieve me of responsibility. I find comfort in writing about and projecting and thinking about the seasons and the sea, things like that, because I have no control. I find comfort in fatalism and inevitability." Well he might. For if some kind fate is guiding Taylor's professional destiny, it was at work when it sent him to London...
Taylor may perhaps derive some comfort from the division of public attention, which is certain to grow more pronounced as the individual reputations of his fellow rock troubadours grow. There are, for example, such famous ex-group soloists as the individual Beatles, Neil Young and Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young). Elton John is an English one-man music industry whose songs range panoramically from country rock to blues. Leon Russell, the presiding master of gospel rock, invokes the Lord Jesus with piano playing that has a touch of Fatha Hines and a voice that has a touch...