Word: sustains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only relief in a Gordon novel is her wonderful sense of humor: "She was incapable of deceit, not through any strength of character, but because she lacked the intellectual apparatus either to invent or sustain...
...time, however, the oil and banking industries were hit with new taxes. Spokesmen complained that the meager benefits in the budget package would do little to relieve the plight of most businesses. "I share the disappointment everyone will feel," said a somewhat apologetic Howe. "But I am determined to sustain firm action in the battle against inflation. To change course now would be fatal...
...general, Newlove's treatment of the thirsty talent in the room is too haphazard to sustain any conclusions about writers and alcohol that would not apply to computer programmers. But like improvisational jazz, the book works because of its looseness. The Newlove sound is robust and swinging, the mark of a man who has discovered that his talent is in toxication enough...
...donnas pouting with vanity, sighing village simpletons and cartoon-strip gestures flourish at Lowell House this weekend in Gaetano Donizetti's The Elixir of Love, a production which remains unabashed and comfortable in its use of devices that have pleased audiences for centuries--and balances them well enough to sustain its momentary lapses into camp and slang...
...opportunities Harvard offers its students makes is difficult to sustain a major commitment to a sport like swimming for all four years. Some people are willing to make it their sole commitment outside of course work and for others it's just another extracurricular. The choice belongs to the individual and I don't concern myself with judging the approach of my teammates," Hackett says...