Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malthusian propaganda has, on the face of it, a high and beneficent purpose: to favor good farming practices. A similar erosion scare in the 19305 did result in widespread adoption of erosion-control practices. Some of the clear implications of the present scare, however, give unintended comfort to political and social policies that are anything but beneficent. If even rich nations like the U.S. have, too little land to keep their people passably well fed (as some of the doom-criers try to prove), then what should they do? The answer, for any vigorous people, is obvious...
...slice-of-cake philosophy gives great comfort to one type of state planner. Instead of encouraging initiative toward more production, he says there is only so much-we must strictly control what there is. Any group ruled by this static idea will turn its back on progress and become socially reactionary. The Germans have twice let it lead them into aggressive war, although they, of all people, should have known better. One of their great historic achievements was to "stretch" the sandy acres of the Prussian plain, by good farming. As a result of good farming practices and highly skilled...
Mocking Genius. Mann has chosen no conventionally flashy music-hall prodigy for his case history of a genius. Adrian Leverkühn, as his friend Zeitblom remembers him, was a brilliant, mocking, arrogant schoolboy who, even in his early teens, was constantly throwing off deep remarks. Sample: "Technique and comfort-in that state one talks about culture but one has not got it. Will you prevent me from seeing in the homophone-melodic constitution of our music a condition of musical civilization-in contrast to the old contrapuntal polyphone culture...
Inside the houses and the common hall will be many new features for comfort and convenience. The use of "entries" has been abandoned in favor of two main stairways in each building, leading to every floor. The theory behind this is that there are more residents per floor than there are per entry, and the new arrangement will bring more students into contact with each other...
Serious Job. As psychiatry's U.S. sales manager, Dr. Will is well aware that any new branch of science gets a rough kicking around by the public until the idea has been well tested. Psychiatrists take some comfort in the thought that Galileo was jailed, that Lister was hooted at by his medical colleagues, and that Darwin, who changed the whole course of Western scientific thinking, was attacked viciously in his lifetime...