Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have faith!"-and that sufficed. Sánchez, whom Munoz once called a "man of illustrious conscience," demands their participation in government, tirelessly urges Puerto Ricans to send their advice, criticisms and suggestions to La Fortaleza, the Governor's stately white mansion in Old San Juan. "We cannot maintain even for one more year the collective indifference toward the daily task of government," he pleads. "Let this be the year of the people's expression...
...sees no inconsistency in providing weapons to both sides of the unstable Middle Eastern power equation. For more than a decade, sometimes by proxy, the U.S. has been engaged in an effort to maintain a "balance of weaponry" between Israel and the Arabs. Indeed, it was the U.S. that financed Bonn's embarrassing tank deal. The Soviet Union has pumped a cool $1 billion worth of arms and aircraft into the Arab world in an effort to unbalance the situation. Earlier this month, a flight of supersonic MIG-21D fighters roared into Cairo, giving Egypt a clear tactical edge...
...they confidently expect that they will gain the mastery of space, the domination of the tides and the conquest of the atmosphere. The laboratories and research facilities which this so-called recommended route will destroy or cripple constitute a primary scientific arsenal of democracy in this gruelling struggle to maintain the balance of scientific power in the service of free...
...hope that our Government will restrict our military operations in Viet Nam to the minimum necessary to assure the security of our forces and to maintain our military presence until we can achieve a satisfactory peaceful resolution of the conflict. There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives...
Truffaut, meanwhile, has chosen to experiment with content rather than technique. His Shoot the Piano Player of 1960 and The Soft Skin of 1964 both maintain a tenuous balance between seriousness and self-parody, providing several layers of possible interpretation. Truffaut toys with the reactions of his audience, leading them by the nose into deeper involvement with his characters and then rebuffing them by suddenly turning the plot into a cliche. If you can maintain both distance and involvement simultaneously, Truffaut's films will lead to new perceptions about reality and illusion, about freshness and staleness. His other major film...