Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specific information in the indictment, coupled with the Justice Department's refusal to amplify, has fueled the suspicions of skeptics, although some who initially dismissed the indictments as some mad joke now take them more gravely. In the New York Times, Tom Wicker argued that "if the Government cannot sustain these serious charges?better, for instance, than it was able to justify those against the Chicago Seven?it will provide another shocking example of the kind of official hysteria that so often damages individuals and clouds the public climate." Later the Times noted editorially: "Reason must await the facts...
...time (perhaps he supposes Puritans are not to smile, just as cuckolded Kings are not to rise above buffoonery). When he hits the moments which call for fake-historical eloquence, Harris twists his face into a wrinkled metaphor of Tension, rolls his eyeballs a few times and tries to sustain audible discourse...
...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...
...with a patient who refused to let him cut into a vein for a transfusion; he assumes full responsibility for an operation that resulted in the death of another. Nor does he hide his pride in his growing proficiency. "A surgeon needs conceit," he says. "He needs it to sustain him in trying moments when he's battered by the doubts and uncertainties that are part of the practice of medicine." Nolen, who earned every bit of it, is plainly grateful for his conceit. His patients should...