Word: sustainedâ
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...sustained???indeed, defined?the vaunting, unstable strength that is the soul of rock, the barefoot boogie along the keen edge of the blade. There are lots of scars and some wounds that will never heal. The music remains intact, inviolate. No other group has ever pushed rock so far, or asked so much from it. No other band has ever matched its sound, a particular combination of sonic onslaught and melodic delicacy that is like chamber music in the middle of a commando raid. No other group, in return, has ever had so much asked of it by an audience...
...contribution to society this book is less commendable than the same author's Essays of a Biologist. Therein the long view was more sustained???the implications of biology in the future, the sanity of birth control, the purpose of evolution and kindred philosophical speculations upon the findings of science?speculations for which Professor Huxley appears to be strongly equipped, perhaps (laws of heredity notwithstanding) by one of his great-grandfathers, Dr. Thomas Arnold of Rugby, father of Matthew ("Sweetness and Light") Arnold...
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