Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another major protagonist is Lev Rubin, the philologist who develops the voiceprinter. Though a prisoner, he is still a convinced Communist. With sympathy and remarkable subtlety, Solzhenitsyn makes clear the process of self-brainwashing by which such a man can sustain such a moral paradox?and can even convince himself that it is right and his duty to help trap Volodin and condemn him to the labor camps...
...visit the prisoner is allowed to put away his convict's uniform and wear his own clothes. Common law wives are not permitted so far, but the possibility is still under discussion. The intent of the program, explains Governor Ronald Reagan, is to "develop family strengths to sustain ex-inmates as they complete the transition from prison to a law-abiding society...
...author attempts a parallel but fails to sustain it. But Sillitoe is himself obviously more at home in Algeria and its stark alternatives than in the equivocal uncertainties of the sybaritic world of his Lincolnshire artist...
...simple moral of all this, and one Chabrol would probably agree with in his humble fashion, is that plot and script content, always captivating, seductively able to sustain our need for entertainment, is limitless in its capacity for excellence yet always a subordinate. The discipline we must cultivate is that of understanding statements of edited images. As in all high art, great film teaches. Even on the lowest level of its excellence, The Champagne Murders teaches us to see better
...challenge only the grading that relegates the Master Sherlock Holmes to Straight City, after running him, blasphemously and preposterously, with Charlie Chan, who gets into Valhalla. Chan, an amusing charlatan, should have been paired with Mr. Moto, and that correct company could well sustain your preference. But Holmes should be paired either with Dr. Watson or Conan Doyle (proving again that the creature can be greater than the creator); in any case, to make this correct evaluation is to place Sherlock Holmes automatically into the "Yes" column. If you placed Conan Doyle beside Edgar Allan Poe, then certainly Doyle would...