Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ablest of Nixon's appointees (in no way tainted by Watergate) sometimes broods: "It is much too easy to destroy a President." The fact is, it is not easy at all. The American governmental system gives tremendous security to a President. He can sustain severe political defeats, even scandals, and still function reasonably effectively as President. What he cannot do after defeat and scandal is pose as the supreme embodiment of American history and purpose or some democratic monarch by divine right. But he was never meant to be that-even without defeat and scandal. It may be that...
...Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951, written by Raymond Chandler) Robert Walker plays a strange, unbalanced character who is frightening because he seems so real. Yet he seems so real partly because Hitchcock is also able to give him both a macabre and a comic dimension and to sustain both aspects throughout the film. In Hitchcock, the comic aspect is not used to add spice and make the film more palatable; it is integral in every way and is one reason that audience involvement with a Hitchcock film runs so much deeper and through so many more emotions than...
...interior space and most of the comforts of a three-bedroom house: private sleeping compartments for its three passengers, a dining table, a shower, a lavatory larger than any commercial airliner's and an 18-in. porthole to provide a view of the earth. To sustain its crews, it carries 720 gal. of drinking water, more than 2,000 Ibs. of food and enough scientific and medical gear for months of experimentation. Both inside and out, it would make a splendid set for a movie like 2001: A Space Odyssey or the TV series Star Trek...
...printing inoffensive material vis-a-vis the administration, or becoming an off-campus, independent publication. (The administrative catch phrase for deviant editors is "irresponsible.") For most college papers, though--indeed all but a scarce few -- the start-up costs of independent publication and the subscription revenue needed to sustain independence are prohibitive...
...then, is sane? Who is crazy? Who cares? Pirandello's paradoxes are too thin-and at this late date too familiar-to sustain the weight of words he thought were required to explain them. Bemused by abstractions, he neglected to write characters who have life and interest in their own right...