Word: sustainer
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...unique gift not only for dead-on impersonations of these characters, but also for setting them all free on a babbling stream of consciousness. These manic monologues are impolite and utterly incorrect politically. They articulate our secret, subversive thoughts. His impersonation of Mrs. Doubtfire shows that he can sustain one of these inventions quite wonderfully. But she's chucklesome, heartwarming, and without a subversive bone under her foam-padded bodysuit. And Daniel Hillard, of whom we see entirely too much, is winsome, childlike, too good for this world, the kind of wimped-out modern male Williams ought to be satirizing...
...more of a precondition for returning to the world of energy, mental concentration and varied feelings. Some very loose analogies can be found with thyroid medication for those who need it, insulin for diabetics and in fact adequate nutrition for everyone: intake of any chemicals and nutrients to sustain a decent life is not the final goal but the means to be fully capable of pursuing other goods...
House Master William H. Bossert '59, returning from a formal house dinner, said the student did not sustain any serious medical injuries...
...toleration. On this view, toleration is not good in itself, nor is it good because it helps us to learn to accept each other for who we are. On the contrary, toleration is valuable because only by maintaining a large degree of toleration can a community--like Harvard--sustain a healthy level of controversy. Controversy is good because it--like war, competitive sports, and mental games like chess--demands and elicits the best of each of us as individuals...
...debate over deficit reduction often ignores an important point: the role of government is to improve the lives of its citizens. If deficit spending achieves this goal, it is wholly positive. By making the country stronger, it guarantees our ability to sustain the debt load. During World War II, for example, the nation carried a higher percentage of debt than it does now. Nobody cried "youth tax" then because the borrowing was for a good cause...