Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a Ph.D. or even a reader of the New Yorker to be aware that the popularity and prestige of wall to wall hi-fi sets, automobiles that will fit through your front door, and modern houses without doors lies in their association in the public mind with "modern" comfort and culture. If art appreciation no longer constitutes the badge of the avant-garde nor is limited to the culture containers at Smith and Wellesley, a parallel phenomenon to the culturalization of the bourgeoisie has been the increasingly bourgeois nature of culture. In gaining wider acceptance the forms have undergone...
...really ashamed to see themselves appear in her pages, is hard to say. One should talk sweet of the aged, and of the performance in her current issue, such talk need be neither hypocritical nor gratuitous. If a reader wishes there were a little more of her, he can comfort himself by sensing that she is, at least, there. A fellow can ask little else of a woman, particularly in springtime...
...Studebaker-Packard) saw that there was a big market for the kind of car they themselves could make in the U.S. Dubbed a "compact" car to distinguish it from the tiny imports, the Rambler had offered the economy and easy handling of the foreign car plus much of the comfort, power and durability...
...completely automated hog, whose comfort is so catered to that he never moves a muscle except to belch, the reason why lean meat has all but vanished from bacon...
Born in Switzerland, Jean Tinguely was an early rebel, was expelled from school after school and took up art in desperation at the age of 14. Nine years ago, he quit Switzerland in disgust ("They're suffocating in security and drowning in comfort"), settled in a lean-to shack in Paris' scruffy Impasse Ronsin. There, in a litter of old iron, cooky crumbs and whirling clockwork, Tinguely constructs his "abstractions," erratically watched over by his wife Eva. Says her husband: "She paints the kind of things Edgar Allan Poe would have, if he'd been able...