Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointment of a city ombudsman to help cut bureaucratic red tape. Yorty is content with merely echoing that Los Angeles is the greatest, and that he is the man to keep it going and growing the way it has been. As an aide says: "There is a kind of comfort with Sam Yorty." But pre-primary polls showed that this year, in a two-man runoff, Bradley would win handily and that Yorty was the candidate whom the largest share of voters (33%) least preferred in the whole field. In the unpredictable world of Los Angeles politics, contradictions and surprises...
...self-consciousness-raising. It was so precious that it was not worth attacking, even as a boiler of pot. Maybe the professor was no more of a long-distance runner in the publishing world than in Boston. In which case the book pointed up a moral (always a comfort to critics). For all its talk of riches, it was really about poverty-of invention. Thus it could be considered not so much a fairy tale as a true confession...
...spoke of the prison chaplains' attempts to comfort the prisoners, saying, "We were the happiest when they were going, rather than coming...
...humanists and others who believe that both man and society are perfectible, Lévi-Strauss extends small comfort. "Humanism has failed," he believes. "It has lent itself to excusing and justifying all kinds of horrors. It has misunderstood man. It has tried to cut him off from all other manifestations of nature." He is gloomy about the population explosion, the pollution of air and water and "the destruction of living species, one after another." Like many another student of past societies, he admires those primitive cultures that struck a balance between man and his natural environment...
...Comfort...