Word: sustainability
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...offense is either intended or done by Harvard's support of Memorial Church in the context of the universalistic-thrusted Harvard of today, any more than it is an offense by the Notre Dame of today to sustain Catholic edifices and forms. Nor is the acceptance of this by non-Christians (indeed even non-high status Protestants like Jehovah Witnesses, Baptists, Mormons) at Harvard a denial of the value of their particularlism or ethnicity. It is merely a facet of the forever ambiguous status of people called Americans. Mormons at Harvard dealt with this status ambiguity in a good American...
...Christianity, in common with a large body of secular thought, also holds that the patient, the family and their doctors are not morally required to use every conceivable means to sustain a damaged life. In Catholicism, which has the most developed literature on such questions, one notable exponent of this view was the brilliant 17th century Spanish Cardinal Juan de Lugo, who said "ordinary" efforts are required, but "extraordinary" methods...
Without dialogue, plot, or development, the monologues soon become tiresome and cliched. Patrick cannot sustain tension in this round-robin of self-revelation. He reveals more and more of each character, but he merely brings surfaces into finer focus, never taking us into the souls of the characters. The final speeches are searing, but we cannot empathize: by this time the characters have deteriorated into stereotypes capable only of synthetic emotion...
...much more the regime needs to do to relax its often harsh rule and prepare Spain for a smooth transition into a post-Franco era once the Generalissimo dies or, less likely, steps down. At a time when Spain badly needs closer ties with Western Europe to help sustain its rise to prosperity and ease the coming transition, an all but irrational outburst of anti-Spanish emotions in European capitals has left the country more isolated than at any other time since the 1940s...
...said the goal for each of the schools is to implement the "revolving concept," by which schools with excellent loan collection can sustain the loan program without new federal capital, supporting new loans with income from outstanding loans...