Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exactly to lowans' taste. His advocacy of a bombing halt in North Viet Nam does not sit too well with Hawkeye State voters. Even placid Iowa is concerned about law and order. Stanley stresses law enforcement, "including civil rights laws," while Hughes underlines justice as a prerequisite. Nevertheless, lowans like their Governor's forthright ways, and this works in Hughes' favor. "I mainly talk from my gut," says Hughes. His often ragged syntax bears witness to a formal education that ended after a year of college, and he can cuss like a teamster. Once, local legend...
...THEY don't positively leap on stage with a hoot and a "Down with Jerry Herman!" sign, Burt Bacharach and Hal David nevertheless make a wicked entrance in the proceedings now on display at the Colonial. Each micro-second of music has the Bacharach-David signature: a souped-up piano, an unseen chorus blowing like the wind over solos and ensemble numbers alike, tunes that demand alternately a whisper and a belt, and lyrics that stick so close to life in its physical and emotional details as to leave no room either for clever allusions or technical bravado. The long...
Since the rule came close to the area of free expression staunchly guarded by Columbia's liberal tradition, it was of intense concern to the entire University community. Nevertheless, the prohibition was promulgated by President Kirk without consultation with students, and apparently without prior discussion with faculty members. In fact, the rule ran contrary to the unanimous recommendation of a tripartite committee whose report the President withheld...
...fear that Wilson might decline to appear or that he might agree to do so only if the meeting were closed to the public seems to have been unfounded. Nevertheless, it is difficult to guess exactly how much Wilson will reveal about his Committee's report because such reports are usually kept secret till they have been presented officially. Wilson may attempt to probe the feelings of the SFAC members without revealing any of his own but this maneuver will almost certainly be challenged...
...came to the South naive and expecting the worst. Like many of the Northern students who trooped down to Dixie last summer, I knew little about the South and less about its black people. Nevertheless, I was sure of my mission and relieved to find an area where right and wrong were so easy to tell apart. Instead of bothering with the increasingly-complex questions of government morality, I could merely go somewhere else and oppose Evil...