Word: comforts
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...primary way in which the movement can speak to the conservative person is in terms he already identifies: comfort and security for example. If the older generation, which cannot grasp the concepts of the radicals, can see in them an alternative life-style which is comfortable, happy and secure and non-threatening, then there is good chance that the older generation can be won over. But, at that point it becomes less impotant whether the older generation is won over, because the radicals have their own new institutions...
There are almost 16 million black Christians in the U.S., and by far the majority find their faith and spiritual comfort in churches and denominations of their own making. Those churches were the first black institutions in the nation; they are still, by every measure, the largest. Today they reflect the struggle of U.S. blacks for their rightful place in society, and the leaders of those churches differ widely in the role they see for the black Christian in this struggle. But whether radical, conservative or moderately liberal, they generally agree that the black church holds a unique place...
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...Vietnamese, North or South, can find much reflected glory in the elegant red-and-gold lacquered panels of Hué's imperial city. Laotians, living in the shadow of the war next door and amid the growing misery of the one in their own front yard, take small comfort in the ancient Buddhist temples of Luangprabang. To a certain extent, Cambodians could relive the triumphs of the Khmers in the resounding rhetoric of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who at least kept the kingdom independent. Clearly, if the past sometimes seems impossibly remote and unreal to Indochina's long-suffering...
Kaplan maintains that stage fright derives from "all levels of psychosexual development." He points to the anxious adult's tendency to touch his nose or mouth or chin, acts rooted in the infant's use of its own hand as a source of physical comfort when its mother -its source of sustenance-is absent. The actor fears a hostile or unappreciative audience, but knows he must perform, that his hands and body are strictly choreographed; he is defenseless at the height of his anxiety. (As opposed to the paranoiac, who can try to flee his imagined dangers...