Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sampling taken a month later. In this trial, Nixon squeaked by the Democratic front runner, 44% to 43%. Whether the difference is due to increased presidential popularity or to the vagaries of polltaking two years before the event is difficult to know. In any case, there can be scant comfort in the new survey for the White House, since Gallup, like Harris, found the undecided vote to be 4%, making Nixon's 1% margin rather fragile...
...dancer, she says vaguely, the next a young Soviet documentary-film director, whom she divorced shortly before her defection and refuses to name because, she claims, it may damage his career. She found plenty of helpful friends among dancers in the West. Dame Margot Fonteyn gave her counsel and comfort. Nureyev broke into a year of solid bookings to do a special TV film with her for a BBC Christmas show. She was drawn to the American Ballet Theatre in part because its varied repertoire includes ballets by Anthony Tudor (Pillar of Fire) and Jerome Robbins (Les Noces), as well...
...related danger is to romanticize and sentimentalize the family. From the Greek tragedians to the modern psychoanalysts, men have known that the family, along with being a source of immense comfort, is also a place of savage battles, rivalries, and psychological if not physical mayhem. Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing says that the "initial act of brutality against the average child is the mother's first kiss." He finds it hurtful that a child is completely at the mercy of his parents, even to having to accept affection. Laing's colleague, David Cooper, calls the nuclear family the "ultimately perfected form...
...abroad for nearly two and a half years. I consider myself very much an American, but I don't like being where the "action" is. In creating this action, America has paid a frightfully large price in dehumanization. It is undoubtedly exhilarating to survey the turmoil from the comfort of an air-conditioned office after having made it, but what about these who get their noses rubbed in "action" every day. We may be the center of things, but I wonder how long we−or the rest of the world−are going to endure...
...Wrong Issue. Temporarily, at least, the discomfited public has rallied behind Heath and his hard line against the E.T.U. The Prime Minister can take less comfort, however, from the latest Harris poll; it shows that his Labor predecessor, Harold Wilson, has increased his lead in personal popularity over Heath by 51% to 37%. The poll also indicated that the Labor Party has now surged ahead of the Tories in public popularity, 48% to 45%. Once the electrical showdown is settled, moreover, many Britons may turn against Heath and the Tories for having allowed the blackout to continue so long...