Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GROWS UP, the idealism of youthful individuality inevitably clashes with realities of adult society. Idealists generally learn that survival, or at least comfort, often requires daily compromise of principles, but such compromise is painful and demoralizing. Sooner or later, though, all but the most exceptional learn to play the game and try to make their peace with themselves...
...artist who feels mashed by critics can take comfort in what used to be written about Gustave Courbet. Consider the broadside he got from Alexandre Dumas fils in 1871: "Under what gardener's bell, with the help of what manure, as a result of what mixture of wine, beer, corrosive mucus and flatulent edema can have grown this sonorous and hairy pumpkin, this aesthetic belly, this imbecilic and impotent incarnation of the Self...
...snow lies mushy on the ground, and you've already slipped on a patch of ice and landed on your ass, cursing because there's no escaping the fact that Cambridge Winter is here and because, baby, it's cold outside--I say, at the very least--you can comfort yourself with a wide selection of excellent December folk music around Cambridge...
...suspects; we have narrowed it down." One theory was that someone with access to the vaults had walked off with the cash and turned it over to a confederate, who had flown it out of the country. The prospect of an arrest without recovery of the money was cold comfort to officers of the bank. Its theft insurance policy covers losses only above $1 million...
...brought on by the bitching of last year's freshmen. Once upon a time freshmen ate at all the Houses in the course of a year. Then they ate at three only, but for longer periods of time at each. Now freshmen don't ever have to leave the comfort of the Union. When they do, they go in convoys with a proctor riding shotgun. To pay for keeping the Union open weekends, all but four Houses have abandoned hot breakfasts. Greatly upset at the prospect of going to 9 a.m. classes without waffles, upperclassmen rose up in unsuccessful protest...