Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book has the same size, feel and illustrated mini-encyclopedia format as the author's last two manuals, The Joy of Sex and More Joy of Sex. But this time British Author Alex Comfort, 56, is trying for a pop bestseller on old age, not sexual hydraulics. A Good Age (Crown; $9.95) is Comfort's attack on "agism"-prejudice against the elderly, which he considers society's most stupid bias. After all, the elderly are the only outcast group that everyone eventually expects to join. "I wonder," says Comfort, "what Archie Bunker would say about Puerto Ricans...
...Comfort, a gerontologist and author of two previous books on aging, the chief disability of old age is agism itself. "Most of the handicaps of oldness in our society are social, conventional and imaginary. The physical changes are trifling by comparison." Because of "redneck bigotry" and "the steady drip of misinformation," the elderly are patronized, overmedicated and arbitrarily excluded from any significant social roles...
...reporters will be sleeping soundly by now, perhaps for the first time in months. For those who traveled with the candidates, from backwaters to crammed auditoriums, from airplanes to buses to a hundred motel rooms of varying size and comfort, the sleep must indeed be deep and dreamless. Now comes the longed-for respite from compulsive transcribing and typing and searching for something of interest in the inevitable sameness of a campaign that never should have lasted so long. Through a television camera or a newspaper's front page, that long line of reporters peered into the unreal world...
...scrutiny. "I really like tempera because it has a cocoon-like feeling of dry lostness-almost a lonely feeling. There's something incredibly lasting about the material, like an Egyptian mummy, a marvelous beehive or hornet's nest." Paint embalms the objects on Wyeth's cold-comfort farms; it stresses their distance from one another and from the eye. Combined with his fondness for large legible shapes and photographic cropping, it can produce arresting images...
...dream is a result of her disappointment, not only with marriage, but with all her close relationships from childhood on. None of the people she has loved, from her nanny, her father and her high school girlfriends to her adult lovers, has provided her with a real sense of comfort and belonging. Instead, each of the loved ones has stunted her emotional growth in some profound...