Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...20th century about the ambivalence of inner drives and longings, a growing number of modern thinkers have put their faith and hope in the psyche as the last refuge of idealism in a corrupt, unhappy world. Charting the physical decline of one civilization after another, Historian Arnold Toynbee took comfort in what he called the "etherealization" of mankind: the tendency of advancing societies to encounter internal rather than external challenges, to move from a material existence to one that is more spiritual. Similarly, the Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was persuaded that evolution has brought civilization to a higher...
...multiplier onions but for meaning, personal identity and love-the sort of things the Nearings could take for granted in 1932. If they find what they are looking for, the discovery could help redeem the country. In the meantime they could do worse than heed the word from Cold Comfort Farm: Keep your compost wet. After a hard winter, even a turnip can look like a godsend...
...Jews would have had no hope." Despite last week's turnabouts in Spain and the Soviet Union, however, Woodrow Wilson's conviction that "opinion ultimately governs the world" remains eminently debatable. Though it helped to stay the firing squads in Burgos and Leningrad, that fact holds scant comfort for the 26 convicted dissidents, who still face long and harsh years of imprisonment despite their year-end rescue from execution...
Though the Machiavellians won the latest battle in Chile, there was some comfort for the Gradualists. Banks and insurance companies, which Allende earlier had promised would be nationalized right along with the mines, were given a reprieve until a government commission can come up with a takeover plan...
Fortunately, both doctor and patient survived. At 42, Nolen is now chief of surgery at Meeker County Hospital in Litchfield, Minn. But The Making of a Surgeon is no tale of easy triumph -or comfort to people headed for the hospital. The point of this impressively honest memoir is that surgeons learn by doing, and patients often suffer in the process. As Nolen tells it, trial and error is still the only way to develop the skill and gall that a first-rate surgeon requires...