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Where popular support for democracy exists, as in Grenada, the United States can sometimes supply the necessary force. But unless a people is politically mature enough to institute and sustain democracy on its own, we cannot gain anything by meddling in their internal affairs--other than, perhaps, ameliorating their misery a little by cautious and limited measures...
Economists and legal experts predicted yesterday that the Supreme Court would sustain the panel's ruling. But they had mixed reactions to the court's decision...
...Because the film's scenes were not shot in order], it was difficult to sustain one's concentration throughout...In contrast with working on the stage, there is no way of developing your work organically...The camera mainly does it for you. It's basically just getting down and doing...
Nonetheless, Bountiful sprouts because of the inherent interest it encourages in the lives of these four characters. But the film is like a Texas-based Four Characters in Search of a Plot, with enough genuine emotion to sustain it, but not quite enough action to avoid straying into gratuitous sentimentality. The characters are all bursting with energy, but they are stifled by the formlessness of the script...
Ever since I had the use of reason, the name Jesus Christ was one of the most familiar in my house and in school during my infancy and adolescence. I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure...