Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevertheless, he urged students who "like the idea of helping young people" to ignore the heavy-handed implications of "Blackboard Jungle" and stressed the "wonderfully durable satisfactions" involved in teaching...
...past deplored the unethical practices of the Young Republicans, a sprawling group run by a small clique, an organization that has interfered with the activities of other groups on campus, a body with as little respect for its own constitution as for good manners and decent behavior generally. Nevertheless, we oppose unnecessary official meddling in undergraduate organizations, and the hastily conceived attempt of the Student Council to seize the Club's books. Only as a last resort, following a failure of the principals in the fight to co-operate, should Dean Watson consider the suspension or revocation of the Club...
...problems of personnel in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." For the purpose of the individual tutorial system, the Committee's recommendations for a rigid system of academic advancement meant that there would be fewer tutors, and, in that sense, the grand beginnings of tutorial were destroyed. The Committee, nevertheless, did perform the necessary function of reducing the base of the academic pyramid, which had swollen out of all proportion to the number of permanent appointments at the apex...
...bureau was delighted, although Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's office declined to go so far as to make RWBCLYIOU an official song. Nevertheless, one TV station played the song, and soon hundreds of amateur poets peppered the IRS with lively comments and suggestions. Sample, from a Joplin (Mo.) chiropractor and amateur musician, who wrote a lament to Tax Form 1040 (The One-O-Four-0 Blues) : "I fear that I'll be tardy/ In completing Form Ten Forty...
...that mutiny is in the making aboard Italy's censorship. In 1952, complaining that the neorealist school of moviemakers had formed a gloom brigade that was ruining the foreign market for Italian films, the Italian government forced its state-subsidized movie industry to lower standards and raise skirts. Nevertheless, in Gold of Naples, Director De Sica has managed to say with a smile what he could not have said with a sneer. The four stories are variations on the same theme of human bondage that De Sica develops in all his serious films, and he plays his variations with...