Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that each drama must be reborn rather than merely remembered and repeated, and that rebirth is fully as difficult as birth. A play dies when too vast a gap develops between it and the life around it. The exquisite mandarinisms of the centuries old Peking Opera, for example, cannot sustain themselves in a world of Red Guards...
Virtually the entire fourth quarter was played in Big Red territory, but Harvard could never quite sustain a drive...
...already overactive, restless children and expect them to calm down," says Martin, "but that is exactly what happens. It is fascinating and exciting to watch a child who awakes mean and irritable. Within 15 to 30 minutes after taking methylphenidate he becomes calm and cooperative and is able to sustain concentration for four hours...
What bugs Rowan and Martin is how long they will be able to sustain the breakneck pace of Laugh-In. At times, the novelty of the show threatens to wear thin. Some of the jokes are too inside; some of this season's new bits, such as the recitation of old, out-of-context punch lines and the "Fun Couple" sketches, fail to work. Says Rowan: "When you take on a show that doesn't fill time, that doesn't come on with singers and dancers as a copout, that is nothing but comedy material-the well...
Resort to violence or physical harrassment or obstruction is never an acceptable tactic for influencing decisions in a university. This principle does not require notions of property or legality to sustain it. It derives from three considerations...