Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a society would not bring Ethel Higonnet to life, or comfort those people who knew her. But it would make similar murders in the future less likely...
However, it is Mr. Hall's remarkable insensitivity to the nature of a Harvard or Radcliffe student's needs and rights in this situation that I really object to. A student's suite is his home and he or she is entitled to the privacy, convenience, and comfort that the term implies. Right now, the President of the United States suggests that "comfort" means 68 degrees, but I gather this still means 68 degrees in one's own home. Why should a student receive less...
...Howard except accomplishment. It has taken her the better part of two decades, however, to disentangle herself from childhood and, in particular, from the ghost of a conventional, cheery, saintly, disapproving Midwestern mother. Nor has it been easy for her, despite much consciousness raising, to wear female adulthood with comfort. She is a chronic stocktaker, and it is fairly clear that what she saw when she began to put this interim report together gave her no great pleasure: a good reporter, a financial success, a useful friend, housebroken house guest, amusing aunt, attractive heterosexual single woman, and an occasional partner...
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...average Negro is not benefited by other Negroes happening to become capitalists. Why should an individual Negro take any special comfort from the fact that some other Negro is a major stockholder in General Motors, rather than a white? What's it to him? It's simply an individual...