Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evian-les-Bains was an episode, scarcely enough to sustain a novel. Habe's book is upholstered with plot digressions, epigrams ("the everlasting exchange of deceptions which we call social life"), philosophizing and methodical character analyses beneath which the characters themselves threaten to disappear. The figure of Habe's protagonist, Heinrich von Benda, is so overburdened with the mantle of tragedy that his death, of a heart attack in the train bearing him back to occupied Vienna, comes as a kind of comic relief...
...much, and are doing much, to help the have-nots through whom Communism hopes to make its advances. But, despite these efforts and despite all the talk about disarmament-to which the American spirit is basically receptive-the hard facts of international life require the U.S. to prepare to sustain indefinitely a large and powerful military machine, and to re-examine it constantly...
Mayer has placed an enormous burden on his cast, his technical crews and himself, and none of the three is able to sustain it for any protracted length of time. Brecht's play, as Mayer presents it, is a visual extravaganza. For once in a Loeb production the costumes--fiery red for the Gods, warm tans, greens and yellows for everyone else--have some relevance to the set's color scheme. But the set shakes frighteningly. The set, like the ensemble scenes in the first and second acts still needs a few day's work...
...even harder. In the title tale, a young mother whose little son and daughter have recently drowned reluctantly realizes that her heart is not broken, impatiently longs for her own death as the only remaining event of possibly equal interest. Deft in execution, ironic in tone, the stories serviceably sustain Author Mishima's reputation as a sure and showy craftsman...
This spring the lightweights have been posting impressive times over short distances. If they can sustain these times over longer distances, the outlook is bright for the season. Weber is pleased. "According to the clock we're looking good, but that remains to be proved in races," he says...