Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another difficulty is continuity. Since most teaching fellows stay at Harvard for only three or four years, the organization will have to develop a life of its own that will sustain it when the present set of leaders is gone...
Even in the event that students sustain their interest and the Administration maintains its seriousness, one final consideration remains: will the collaboration be successful, or will it simply be a series of compromises on key issues to keep everyone happy...
...bulk and react to an ever-changing environment. The guidance system faltered in election year 1966, causing that rare paradox, inflation at a time of some business slow- down. Some of the problems have changed, but they remain serious enough in 1967 to pose the question: Can the nation sustain a seventh consecutive year of expanding prosperity? In his Economic Report and Budget Message to Congress last week, President Johnson answered with a qualified yes. He said the U.S. could curb inflation, avoid recession, ease the painful money pinch, and still expand economically. This could be done, moreover, while...
...minute oratorio based on the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is a highly personal memorial to the Nazis' victims. Scored for bass-baritone, double chorus, orchestra and string quintet, the pace in all but one of the ten movements is slow to slower. To sustain interest within such a restrictive format, the score trades on subtlety rather than splash, deftly plays the wistful mewings of the string quintet against the dense harmonies of the orchestra, intertwines exquisite vocal patterns like a kaleidoscope turning in slow motion. Brilliantly performed, Requiem was distinctly modern but never abrasively atonal...
...cold columns leave no room for fantasies-just stark, unyielding figures. In the budget for fiscal 1968 that Lyndon Johnson is sending to Congress this week, bound in a subdued, rust-colored cover, the priorities are baldly stated. The President calls for a sizable increase in defense spending to sustain the Viet Nam war, with a complementary slowdown-though not an actual decrease-in Great Society spending...