Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agree entirely with Alex Comfort's findings in The Joy of Aging...
...Requiem seemed cut from velvet rather than the usual broadcloth. Karajan's reading was a subdued rumination, a realization of the deeply personal utterance the composer drew from the Lutheran Bible. In the elegiac "And ye now therefore have sorrow," Soprano Leontyne Price seemed to distill grief and comfort into a burnished flow of melody...
...student services at the University of Washington, agrees: "The decline in hazing is coming from the kids themselves. No amount of pressure by the school, the law or parents would stop it, but they don't want it so it's not there." That is little comfort, of course, to the family of Thomas Fitzgerald...
Edward J. Markey, the newly elected U.S. Representative from Massachusetts's Seventh Congressional District, is in some ways not the type of man from whom nascent politicos can derive a great deal of comfort. On the one hand, Ed Markey is a young politician who came from nowhere in the polls to win one of the most confusing and hard-fought Democratic primary battles for a Congressional seat in Massachusetts history. He showed that, in Massachusetts at least, you don't have to enter a campaign with a large electoral base or ties to a powerful political machine...
...Hawks at his prime was an exhilarating director and his prime found its primacy here with Red River. Montgomery Clift, an unusually beautiful young man, and John Wayne, trying to look older than his age, both act with strength. Wayne especially does the kind of work that shows his comfort with the idea of being...