Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...present danger against which all rightists should unite; and in that schema socialism was, in the hands of callow liberals, useful to communism. Unstated but implicit in such thinking was the assumption that communism was the major threat to human freedom, and that some sacrifices of freedom and comfort and safety were necessary to defeat the red menace. That which strengthened America, even if collectivist, could be rationalized as good; that which weakened America, even if fulfilling of individual freedom, was bad. Many Buckleyite conservatives held these beliefs, not necessarily as absolutely, but certainly as rules of thumb...
...Paris' Ile de la Cité. The celebrants wore vestments designed by Matisse, and the Met's Anna Moffo sang sacred music at what may well have been the first midnight Mass at Sainte-Chapelle since the time of Louis XIV. It was celebrated in relative comfort. Leaving no detail to chance, Shriver had ordered the usually damp and chilly 13th century chapel to be heated two days in advance...