Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Boris began to sing, it was another matter. His voice was strong, resonant and of uncanny clarity. He began his long prayer deliberately, never let his voice reach its maximum power (he saved that for his death scene), indulged in no gasps or sobs, nevertheless developed a painful pitch of feeling as he reached the nadir, almost whispering "Gospodi!" ("Oh my God!"). Not a handclap broke the hushed silence when he finished. Christoff's Boris is no lunatic, but a sensitive, conscience-stricken man whose terror at his infanticide finally cracks his sanity. The audience loved...
...temple, spent 2.000,000 of it on geisha girls and cabarets and the rest on a sloe-eyed model whom he set up as mistress of her own bar. Admitting that "perhaps some priests have become a bit too worldly," the abbot of Zen Daitokuji Temple insisted nevertheless that one bad priest should not be used to damn the entire clergy. The priests found an unexpected ally in Kyoto's Communists who. bitterly opposing the mayor on any count, promptly joined the fray with a sound truck that blared out the charge that Takayama was "persecuting religion." With their...
...Nevertheless, Munro intends to maintain his original starters--Holmes at outside left, Charlie MacVeagh at inside left, Hodnett at center forward; Jim Shue at inside right, and Ken McIintosh at outside right...
...addition, quarterback Ralph Thompson, only 5-7 but nevertheless a good ball handler, and Paul Abrahamian, a freshman back at Harvard in 1953, fill out the very well-balanced group...
...Duchess of Windsor, to many a most enviable woman, believes that she has an "appalling" place in history. This account of how she got there, according to her loyal publishers, was written by her alone, but ghostly fingers may nevertheless be detected at work with the familiar cheesecloth. The life of Wallis Warfield of Baltimore is well-known-perhaps too well. But this retelling carries the great interest of being her own first official version of how she played finders-keepers, losers-weepers with a king and his kingdom...