Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agonies, simple pleasures and the contradictions in his relationship to nature. Some of the poems are lighter, however. A sample entitled "Reciprocation": "It would be odd/ If a spring took no joy/ In beholding hope gush freshly,/ Or if a basaltic mountain/ Did not rest on the comfort of watching/ Human patience in place...
...Rameau, the pearls are the musical forms-such as the sonata, the concerto grosso or the da capo aria. Trills, other ornaments, colorful dissonance, wildly uneven rhythms-all these are devices that create tremendous tension, yank the listener back and forth and leave him in anything but absolute comfort...
...woven a surprisingly spare and calm narrative. He is suspicious of philosophizing, concentrating instead on the individual and organizational side of politics. He does not minimize the role of TV in modern campaigning, but in an age when bigness and bureaucracy seem to stifle individual effort, it is a comfort to find O'Brien still preaching the practicality of the personal touch. From the habit of using a "guest book" at political receptions (begun as a way to compile mailing lists at Jack Kennedy coffee hours in 1952), O'Brien's accent has been on candor...
...their original. Dialogue that should crackle like a telegraph has been slowed to the listless deliberation of a traffic cop writing out a ticket. Jack Lemmon makes a curiously enervated Hildy, and Walter Matthau's Burns is a shambling cynic too similar to his Odd Couple characterization for comfort...
...that comfort you, and wars all cease...