Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understood that failure to sustain the program through next year would mean almost certain loss of the University's waiver of tuition for the scholar. This possibility of tied-up funds aroused some opposition...
Since the actors have no plot to hide behind, they must sustain tension throughout the drama by unfolding their characters quickly enough to keep the play interesting, but also slowly enough to have something left for the end. Two of the three principals have solved their problem well. Robert Jordan gives a very impressive performance as a pacifist newspaperman with an exterior compounded of confidence and arrogance. Yet underneath his surface the man is a coward, and his fear eventually leads him to hell. One of the two women, however, clearly belongs there from the very beginning. As portrayed...
...system that our forefathers gave us, by the resources that God gave us, by the good fortune we have of having been born and raised here through the finest educational and health systems in the world, and so on, let us use our brains to make certain we sustain our position by helping everybody else to realize their own aspirations and legitimate ambitions, not necessarily in the exact pattern of this country ... We can preach and show that we believe in the dignity of man, in the independence of nations, the right of people to determine for themselves their...
...York Attorney General emphasized that he did not favor the use of force and coercion in the South, but held that there must be "earnest, persistent and forward moving effort to sustain the rule of law." He said that more had been done for civil rights in the Eisenhower Administration than in the preceding twenty years...
...risk Ashbery ran in conceiving The Compromise was that he would not be able to sustain with his dialogue a potentially tiresome theme: recollection of the ridiculous over-acting and aphorisms of the first silent movies. Despite a few lapses in the second act, he maintains the necessary easy facetiousness which gives him a chance fully to explore the ludicrous proportions of each melodramatic character. When he falters, it is generally when the action needs spiking with a few irrelevant laughs, which he gets by contemporary cynical asides to the audience. They rather destroy the continuing tone of the play...