Most breathtaking are the museum quality brooches of Masriera, the 19th-century Barcelona jewelers, who make continuances -- not reproductions -- of their original Art Nouveau pieces; jewels and insets of unbacked enamel sparkle like paper-thin slices of sapphires, emeralds or topaz (from $14,000 for a dragon fly).
What holds the pure relationship together is the acceptance on the part of each partner that, 'until further notice', that each gains sufficient benefit from the relation to make its continuance worthwhile.
Those conditions, the writer declares, have "made my continuance as editor untenable".
The prime reason for accumulating the surplus in good years was to make possible the continuance of dividends in bad years.
Currently, Justice Ginsburg wrote in dissent that Congress, "with overwhelming support in both houses," had concluded that the preclearance rule should "continue in force, unabated," because that would "facilitate completion of the impressive gains thus far made; and second, continuance would guard against backsliding".
But, as the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan once explained to a rather baffled William F. Buckley, Jr., the continuance of colonial rule would not make them more ready.
For instance, Texas requires judges to grant continuances to lawyers who, as legislators, can't make it to court because of official state business.
The process has not resulted in any new programs, institutions or formal agreements, and it is in danger of ending without a real plan for preserving the progress made or ensuring its continuance.
On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the deception which is being practised on them; also I believe that it may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share, and which they have not sufficient imagination to realise".
Crewe said: I have labored to make a covenant with myself, that affection may not press upon judgment; for I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of a house so illustrious, and would take hold of a twig or twine-thread to support it.
