Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First Street School eventually closed down, because Dennison and his colleagues could not sustain their interest in it. He takes his lesson from that too. The Appendix of the book includes extensive advice on how to establish and run a school like First Street. Dennison prefaces this advice with the following statement in the last chapter...
...faculty voted by a margin of 42-7 to sustain the Ad Board's one-term suspension of Gregory K. Pilkington, a second-year law student. Pilkington's suspension-the Board's most severe punishment-was the major issue in the protests and disruption of the last week...
lonesco cannot sustain this elegant intensity at full stretch, though in the past he has done so. Where a play like Rhinoceros was intransigently original, as the imagery of The Triumph of Death cumulates, it becomes literary, reminiscent; often beautiful, it is eventually muffled in echo. Worse, satiric invention flags, seeks easy targets: political speakers who die, pompous doctors who die. At the end, the plague abates, but Death still waits, for the city and the few survivors are consumed by fire. An arbitrary close. But that's the point...
...book is a collection of essays, somewhat repetitions; yet the points Boorstin makes sustain repetition. Each original example, each lively anecdote he presents is a small revelation. His opinion is his right: his material, though, is highly relevant. His conclusion, an appeal for rational compromise, might well make Richard Nixon's heart palpitate gratefully-but his research calls for a radical interpretation...
...rare festivity. Presidents have been known to celebrate the passage of a cherished piece of legislation; Nixon celebrated a bill's demise. He invited the 191 Representatives who had voted to sustain his veto of the Labor-HEW appropriation. He had challenged the Democratic-controlled Congress to a showdown over a fundamental issue-control of domestic policies...