Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...older poet's younger pantheon. When the veils are drawn, there is crimson chiseling. When the angels speak, their celestial words are of the blue of Heaven. The rarified text - five acts of lofty verse - is for high thinkers, telling the tragedy of imperious Lucifer, who sought to sustain his soul by tugging at his spiritual bootstraps...
...stage by Henri Bernstein. It argues that the quest of glory can be consummated more surely by service to one's people than by love. Though they are in love, Judith kills Holofernes in his tent. There is all the declamation and gaily colored scenery requisite to sustain these hours of argument and action. The general combination is conducive to little except definite apathy...
...first place, Mr. Hampden's version stretches across three hours and 30 minutes of the watcher's time. The play is simply not sufficiently invigorating to sustain the stubborn interest of the casual attendant. In the second place, the interpretation of Mr. Hampden, scholarly and earnest as it is, seems somehow to fail the Moor. He plays Othello resonantly and with determination. Always he plays it; never does he bring the suffering soldier to life. Furthermore, the Desdemona of Jeannette Sherwin is distinctly under standard. Iago (Baliol Holloway, Englishman) gives a curiously individual, irritating and yet undeniably admirable...
...minute-hence their large power for comparatively small weight-while the propellers are geared down and therefore work more slowly and efficiently. The engines are placed in tandem, with a propeller at front and rear end. Thus, if one motor ceases functioning, there still remains sufficient power to sustain flight, and there exists no dangerous tendency to slew the airplane violently around-as is the case when there are two motors, one on either wing. Nothing illustrates progress in design so much as comparison. The NC-4, which crossed the Atlantic five years ago, had the same power...
...unpleasant wife, yet somehow crookedly alluring, she made the author's thesis possible if not plausible. When she was on the stage, streaks of gleaming silver showed through the leaden surface of the play. Alexander Woollcott-"Miss Cornell and her finely competent performance provided the only interest to sustain us through a ponderous and uneventful evening." Heywood Broun-"I cannot remember as much as five minutes in the entire evening which were not tiresome...