Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Purple Hair. Anger does not always work. It is useless against playmates who taunt the child of divorce as different, strange or even sinful. But Gardner trusts the child's sense of his own worth to sustain him. "You are what you are, not necessarily what people say you are," he writes. "If someone were to say that your hair was purple and your skin green, this would not make your hair purple and your skin green...
...Neatness. Who else has a switch on his terrace that, at the flick of a whim, causes a fountain to spurt 120 feet into the air from the center of a private lake? Johnson's house is a monument to the theatrics of neatness: only a bachelor could sustain such stark elegance at this pitch of obsession-one three-year-old child could reduce it all to chaos in ten minutes. It is perhaps the expression of a dilettante-in the classic sense of the word, a lover of the fine arts. It does need money, but it also...
...actor laureate, Sir Laurence Olivier, 63, called a press conference in London to announce that he would be off the boards for at least a year. Said Olivier, who was operated on for cancer in 1967 and suffered thrombosis in one leg last August: "I just can't sustain a stage part. It feels like I've got 20 pounds more on one leg than the other, and during a long speech I get puffed. Anyway, I don't really enjoy acting very much any more...
...Mizoguchi's shots, far from recording natural reality, sustain emotions-by sustaining the essential dramatic element in every scene: relationships between characters. Mizoguchi blocks all the people, objects, and settings of a given situation into a single composition. As people act, their relationships change; their physical movements push the dynamics of the composition into a new order...
...magic and witchcraft. But Drs. Masters and Houston believe that this attitude seriously impairs the survival of institutional religion: "The clergyman who dismisses all of this as primitive and regressive is seriously lacking in vision. He has not understood that profound mystical experience can open up energy sources to sustain a contemporary religion, and that the clergyman himself should be the guide for this spiritual journey...