Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rare best, the theater possesses the uncanny ability to restore and sustain the virginity of a child's imagination. The unmarred innocence of true belief. The faith in magic and miracles. The trust that humankind issues from the hand of God in luminous purity. The hope that life will some day safely return to that hand, however manacled, tormented and casually degraded by the world's flagrantly iniquitous ways...
PERHAPS IT IS FITING that two other members of the junta, Violetta and Joaquin Chamarro, are the children of the President who fell from power shortly before Anastasio Somoza's Debayle's father made his meteoric rise. But poetic justice will not sustain their newgovernment. If they succeed in their dream of becoming a social democracy, the U.S. will find it must account for its dealings there in the future. If not, the coalition could dissolve into another civil...
...into marrying her. She is the victim but also the executioner, and her heartlessness is equalled only by her astonishment at the havoc she wreaks. To her credit, Anne Clarke manages to wrest a characterization out of this maze of contradiction, and falters only when the script itself cannot sustain her. She is able to present Lulu sympathetically, with the right mixture of helplessness and hardness...
...discover that they do share with the press certain common interests, if not a common fate. As New York's Irving R. Kaufman, Chief Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, has written: "Different as the press and the federal judiciary are, they share one distinctive characteristic: both sustain democracy, not because they are responsible to any branch of Government, but precisely because, except in the most extreme cases, they are not accountable at all. Thus they are able to check the irresponsibility of those in power...
...more difficult for Carter to veto the package. Nonetheless, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance warned emphatically that the President would kill the measure, and White House aides were quick to point out that the 41 votes for the President's position were seven more than needed to sustain a veto...