Word: sustainability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...animal labs to his present position as photographer for the News Office. He wanted to be a photographer for years, but he couldn't figure out a way to start. "It's not a poor boy's profession," he says, "because you need to be able to sustain yourself for a while to get established." He finally got his break when Harvard exploded in political violence...
...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) yesterday voted 27-4 to sustain its previous decision prohibiting rising sophomores from transferring out of their assigned House until February...
That's well and good, and hats off to Kearns for finding it out. It is not, however, enough to sustain an entire book. It leads to an exceedingly curious, disjointed approach: one moment Kearns is describing in the first person her relationship with Johnson; next she goes into descriptions of his childhood and emotional development; and from there she discusses his political career, really quite conventionally. The thread that is supposed to run through it all is a focus on Johnson as a person, but the trail often grows faint...
...County police on Long Island had objected to regulations that banned beards, flared sideburns and hair that went over the collar. Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan agreed with the officers that the 14th Amendment's "liberty" guarantee protected them since "an individual's personal appearance may reflect, sustain and nourish his personality." But William Rehnquist, writing for a six-Justice majority, said drily that where the state's standard is not "so irrational that it may be branded arbitrary," the individual's rights must bend "to the overall need for discipline, esprit de corps and uniformity...
Lissa Muscatine and Rita Funara at three and four both won their first sets but could not sustain that pace. Captain Muscatine triumphed, 6-4, but was then thwarted 1-6, 3-6, while Funara squeaked by, 7-6, before developing a blister and suffering two painful defeats...