Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stickwomen spent most of the morning on defense, taking only three shots in the first half and none the second. They were unable to sustain any offensive pressure, while the Tigers took a total of 16 shots on the Crimson...
TAKING AS HIS SUBJECT this lesser half of a noted pair, this shadow of a shade, Brinnin is unable to sustain the same degree of focus and self-effacement he shows in his other studies. He does not have the same interest in Toklas as in Capote, and he does not pretend to. Rather than follow a character's progress and transformation, because of a simple curiosity and fascination for that character's doings, he ignores the character at hand, striving to reach through and beyond Toklas, to Stein. Brinnin's goal, the biography, undermines his intent to depict Toklas...
...Neill conceded there was "no question" the White House would sustain the 145 votes necessary to carry the veto. Earlier in the year, 155 Republican Congressmen sent a letter to the president pledging to support any veto, and the key vote on yesterday's bill...
Diverse as their backgrounds are, Foot's idols also share a social conscience. Bonar Thompson, an anarchist Hyde Park orator whom Foot befriended, believed so strongly in his own independence and in the immorality of the British political system "that he had never helped to sustain that system with so much as a single movement of his hand or finger." Another radical admired by Foot is Thomas Paine, whose reformist writings, shunned for many years in America, grew so popular in Europe that "he gained an international notoriety such as only pop stars have today." And with his literary heroes...
...trees, from the trees." Different dreams, the same empty metaphors. Undeniably, Barthelme has perfected his sleight of hand since 1961, when the first of these 60 stories was published. But as even animal trainers and patient readers know, one trick, no matter how clever, is not enough to sustain a career. By the tenth Barthelme miniature, what began as curiosity and amusement alters to boredom and exasperation. The author's faults-preciosity and an appearance of smugness high among them-become irritatingly noticeable, and the feeling grows that he is not bestirring himself enough to justify continued patronage...