Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ways in which it is incomplete are the ways that would most help us to understand the causes of that consciousness and the way to change it. For example Elena, a one-dimensional woman the hero picks up one day, keeps being described as "underdeveloped," unable to sustain an idea or feeling, erratic, skittish-chauvinist cliches which the film gravely takes for a personality condition that fell from the sky. That's the way she acts, period; that's her given personality, not a product of the specific material conditions and social developments which she's experienced all her life...
...film's most interesting undeveloped ideas is its description of underdevelopment as a condition which makes people unable to relate things, to sustain ideas and feelings. But that's the condition and the effect more of bourgeois culture than of underdevelopment, and that's the condition of Memories . And that's why it's reactionary: it doesn't take an approach that would help its designers or its audience understand its subject and change it; it makes personal and social conditions instead of laying them open. It is, in fact, another Hollywood film...
...Sharp shows throughout his examples, persistence is the key to success. The nonviolent demonstrators must live their action daily, often for long periods of time, as did Gandhi's followers in India. They must sustain a picket line or a boycott much longer than the few hours of a Lexington sit-in or the few days of a Washington demonstration. The action becomes their primary purpose in life; they cannot go home and resume normal activity until the next demonstration, as do the American antiwar protesters. Sharp demands a full-time commitment which thus far in this country has only...
...very difficult-practically impossible, fortunately-to visualize another place in the world where another Viet Nam could develop, where conditions of enough complexity could sustain such a baffling and inconclusive war over so many years. But it is not impossible to imagine other local and limited wars with American involvement. The warmaking responsibility should be shared by the President and the Congress, not only because the founding fathers so clearly intended it but because this is a decision that needs the benefit of collective wisdom and collective accountability. And if the decision is for war, then the war will...
...only is there no life or indication of former life on the moon, but the essential ingredients to produce or sustain life as we know it are also absent. The presence of unoxidized iron on the moon-totally absent on earth-indicates that the moon has had negligible amounts of free oxygen if any at all. The analyses of the lunar rocks gives a concentration of carbon of 30 to 300 parts per million yhile earth rocks normally contain 100 times that much carbon...