Word: sustainable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...advocate and practice separatism, black or white, is to sustain ignorance and fear. Whites still have much to learn about blacks, but if we build walls around ourselves, we may expect the continuation of myths, fears and superstitions...
...belonged in the world, and which have since become commodities. Books, of course, are still produced and distributed, more than ever before. Like all commodities, these objects reflect the mode of production which in turn determines their character. Thus, more books are published than the market is able to sustain: these become obsolete soon after their emergence; some of them are written to supply a demand which has itself been created: and literature, which excludes these conditions, circulates among a small tribe of intellectuals whose own alienation is depicted in such works...
...separate entity. For Winnie (Jessica Tandy), who is buried up to the waist in Act I of Happy Days and up to the neck in Act II, life is a slow, garrulous leak into the sands of death. The trivia of her handbag and stray threads of memory sustain her, together with a fossil of a husband who is scarcely seen and seldom heard. In Krapp's Last Tape, the dialogue is incestuous. A 69-year-old man (Hume Cronyn) communes with his recorded self of earlier birthdays and indulges a ravenous appetite for bananas. Krapp is another...
...organization of other departmental reviews. Guinier said that he could not offer any suggestions on how to set up the review without this information. Without his input, Guinier argues, the Review Committee is illegitimate. But not enough professors believe Dunlop and Bok have deliberately subverted the program to sustain Guinier's position. The mood on campus has changed since 1969 when the department was set up under the threat of student militancy and should Guinier threaten the Faculty, they will probably not be concerned...
Along with the problems of the offensive line, Restic underscored Harvard's inability to make the big play as reason for the Saturday loss. "We didn't generate any offense until the third quarter when Mill Holt came in," the coach said. "We couldn't sustain any movement down the field...