Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideal way to age would be to grow slowly invisible, gradually disappearing, without causing worry or discomfort to the young." So writes Sharon Curtin in understated outrage at the many ways in which contemporary American society tries to shun and shut away its older members...
...Although only a few Faculty will be laid off, every loss is a great discomfort and will have adverse effects," Hiatt said...
Historian Barbara Tuchman offered the appropriate judgment: "Could anyone, remembering past attitudes, look at that picture of President Nixon and Chairman Mao in twin armchairs, with slightly queasy smiles bravely worn to conceal their mutual discomfort, and not feel a stunned sense that truth is indeed weirder than fiction?" The title of her address: "Why Policymakers...
...have only recently returned from five weeks in the Republic of Ireland. The food isn't particularly great, but it is fresh. When I returned to New York, nothing tasted right. I got no lift from my food; only listlessness and discomfort. Our food is not really meant for human consumption -only for machines...
...chaos. Updike has become a mature commentator; if his characters don't know their ultimate fate, they do determine their direction. Even "The Witnesses," the story nearest to tragedy (and one of Updike's best), portrays a mediocre man with a sexual itch who succeeds, much to the discomfort of his respectable friends, in weirdly legitimizing an actually sordid affair. In other hands, the material would be dreary, condescending; Updike makes it moving and unsettling...