Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Young people brought up in a world where everything has come easily to them begin to long for challenge and they cast about for risks to take . . . ." The other came right from Freud: hippies act like "infants and children [who] demand instant gratification . . . demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness." They are immature people, for "if maturity comes, it brings with it the capacity to tolerate some present pain in order to achieve a greater pleasure at some later time...
...constant action Rules is consistent with Renoir's earlier films, constructed not on clearly patterned moral relationships but on the process of events. What unifies his works in the thirties is not the working-out of themes in a film so much as the constant detail-in-motion of social and personal life. All actions tend to equal importance as Renoir gives each character minor mannerisms and gestures to fill each moment. A surface of action gives his films a continuity of realistic events...
Then a marshal lit my candle, and my new project was to keep it going until I said goodbye to Tinsley. I didn't succeed despite constant practice at those Christmas candlelight services. My candle burned faster than anyone else's, and it became clear that I would be lucky if the candle lasted the length of the walk...
Blaine also blamed a permissive attitude by parents which has spawned a desire on the part of students for "immediate gratification of their sexual wants, demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness...
...action slackened up long enough for the demonstrators to start thinking about their stomachs instead of their heads. Hundreds of people kept a constant supply of food and water flowing to the front until everyone had eaten his fill. But even after the hunger and thirst had been satiated, the supply line continued to bring food as if life were indeed dependent upon it. The fact that an unorganized group which had somehowcome together in a common cause was able to feed itself, set up lines of communication, muster lawyers and doctors to the scene was a source...