Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zeppelin draws upon such blues wellsprings as Robert Johnson and Willie Dixon. it does not make its debts its originality. While Led Zeppelin is not so resonantly lyrical as the Beatles. or self-consciously evangelical as Jefferson Airplane. or menacing and cleverly crude as the Rolling Stones. it nevertheless produces a more puissant and unmannered sound than any of these more famous groups. Led Zeppelin like the very few excellent groups. plays with neither tediousness nor superfluity. The essence of the group is superior playing of a propulsive character controlled- by imagination and a firm sense of structure- from degenerating...
...sensuous over the coldly classical, and though he appreciated style, he did not care for the showy. Sometimes his predilections led him astray. He owned, for instance, ten works by the American painter John Carroll, whose wispy, willowy ladies were scarcely top quality even in their own time. Nevertheless, there are enough first-rate impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the Tannahill collection to make any museum happy-especially the Detroit Institute. "One of our most worrisome gaps has been in the area of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists," says Director Willis F. Woods. Adds Assistant Director Cummings...
...fine athlete who did a lot of things well, but didn't have the speed to make it big at the varsity level." said Yovicsin. "He was nevertheless, a great asset to the squad-both as a young man and as a player." Reynolds was also the holder for Richie Szaro's place kicks...
Among faculty members, Fouraker is highly respected and not controversial. But his views are nevertheless unknown. One faculty member said, "Fouraker is a big question mark for me, and I guess for everyone else as well...
...Merry Wives of Windsor is a play which, though it presents a flat and calcified Falstaff, and though on the page it may drag, nevertheless can, and did when I saw it, overflow with life. It is a farce with typically Shakepearian comic elements. For the most part everyone stays the same, there is no real hero, and the humor consists of the devices which were old hat to Aristophanes. But the pasteboard hero (Fenton) does get his girl (Anne Page), and Ford learns that he has been unreasonably, unnaturally jealous, and calms down...