Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Republicans in Congress, the leaders reminded him, were not in a very good position either. It would be almost impossible to raise the votes necessary to sustain the education veto. "I know a veto will put our Republican friends in a box," Mr. Nixon said, but they could vote against him, override the education veto, and he would still have his "maximum impact" on the inflation front...
...Laboring under Stuart Rosenberg's incomprehensible direction, Gould strives to leaven a sodden lump of a movie. His role is that contemporary stereotype, the creative Manhattanite who thinks himself into a granny knot. However fascinating Gould's mumblings and stumblings may be, they are scarcely enough to sustain 90 minutes of pointless celluloid...
...take of "dissent." For capitalism, like colonialism, depends for its power on dividing the people and maintaining a "community of individuals" who fear and distrust each other, where each of the oppressed also acts as oppressor. Semiradical films like Getting Straight and M*A*S*H work to sustain this reactionary disunity, for when Elliott Gould comes on with a cute male-chauvinist line, putting down women and smoothing it all over with a few chuckles, he contributes to the process of syncretism. Individual alienation is cemented into group consciousness, resulting in a general subservience and thought-control, keeping...
...succumb to self-pity, but rather to go forth and be strong. Beyond this, since in such enterprise you will surely need help- as others who have gone before you have needed help- I would add a further prayer, that the grace of God may go with you and sustain you wherever you go and in whatever task to which you will be called...
Faculty members who favored the proposals to reschedule argued that the rescheduling was necessary to sustain long-term student anti-war activism. Pointing out that more than a dozen university faculties have already approved such plans, the professors said that their proposals did not conflict with educational practice...