Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrill to the new pattern these people are shaping, the life-style they are by example inviting others to share at no little cost to themselves. And I note the liveliness of spirit and the joy that sustain them in their trouble...
...outrage affects Americans in opposite ways, resulting in an antiphonal chorus of anger. On one side, in helpless dependence, welfare recipients complain that they do not get enough to sustain a decent life. Welfare Organizer Mrs. Johnnie Tillmon vehemently attacks the Administration's proposed Family Assistance Plan as "inadequate and ridiculous. You don't give people dirt to encourage them to work. There's not much incentive in that." On the other side, in the grip of inflation and rising taxes, those who pay the bill complain that too much is being given away to millions who are probably shiftless...
...opened the interview by noting that while the young Westerner had indeed published, he had not published in the best magazines. The young man went on to tell me that after this opening gun he had been cowed to such a degree that he gave up any effort to sustain a good impression for the rest of the interview, and that he proceeded to get thoroughly drunk immediately after the session. It had been sufficient to be accused of inauthenticity by an Eastern intellectual to be thoroughly unmanned. And not so unexpectedly, this same assistant professor said that he liked...
Next day, the administration overruled the committee. The Texas regents tried to bar Boyle from representing groups against the university. In turn, the lawyer argued that the regents had violated state laws by adopting a new rule without adequate notice. If the regents sustain the ban at their meeting this week, Boyle's supporters threaten to sue them in federal court for violating the students' right to counsel...
This is Eastern chauvinist rhetoric. But such attacks do, at least, indicate one crucial difference between the art scenes on the West and East coasts. New York has an efficient phalanx of museums and publications to sustain the discourse between new art and its audience. Southern California has not. Its museums, declares Los Angeles Critic John Coplans, "are basically social clubs with a strong materialistic background of acquisitions for local trustees. You can't walk into any museum in L.A. for most of the year and see a permanent installation of vital work that's being done here...