Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summing up, Steiner proposes that "the major question for Europe is where the best of American civilization, with its great efficiencies, its uses of color, space, fabric, its ideas of comfort and speed of communication, can successfully meet with the values and traditions of the old world." Perhaps surprisingly, Steiner finds that ground of "creative collision" in Northern Italy, particularly in Milan. Thanks to the ancient strengths of the country-part Catholic, part Latin, part landscape -Northern Italy "has successfully avoided the second-rate Americanisms you see elsewhere in Europe-gas stations that don't work as well...
...Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (1) 2-The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam (2) 3-The Joy of Sex, Comfort (4) 4-Harry S. Truman, Truman (3) 5-I'm O.K., You're O.K., Harris (5) 6-Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda (7) 7-All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot (8) 8-"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,&#quot;O'Donnell, Powers, McCarthy (6) 9-The Manipulated Man, Vilar (10) 10-Soldier, Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, U.S.A. (ret.) with James T. Wooten
...conditions in the hospitals. Management uses race, class, and hierarchy to divide workers, Lisa explained. "Class and departmental separation encourages an in-grown community and suspicions between workers in different classes," she said. And Lisa does not think this is a natural divisiveness that the workers choose for comfort. She said that many of the Spanish workers want to work with English-speaking workers so that they can learn the language...
...Comfort...
...films can still provide comfort for the weary and overburdened. Rip learns that the stalwarts have not toppled. Gregory Peck, Paul Newman, John Wayne, Steve McQueen are impervious to criticism; throw a rock at them and it still produces sparks. As for the theater, that too has its enduring endearing qualities. There are laments for the passing grandeur of the now tacky Broadway; butter and egg musicals, and Neil Simon comedies still pull in the theater parties. Save for the new nudity, the visitor might never have been away...