Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resort and tourist attraction. The population jumps to 16,000 in July and August; last summer 200,000 sightseers overran its quaint cobblestone streets and lolled on its beaches. Salty natives sneer that one-day visitors "come with a five-dollar bill and a dirty shirt and change neither." Nevertheless, local businessmen gladly pocket the $20 million a year spent annually on bus trips, postcards and clam chowder. In fact, the tourist trade is growing so rapidly that many "off-islanders," the regular summer residents, are concerned lest their historic hideaway lose its charm...
...Nevertheless a sere rendition of the political mileu in dramatic outline would not and cannot be enough to keep a play suspended high and Babe Knows so--the crowning glory has to come from soaring moments of poetry from outbursts of noble fanaticism, the over-statement of the impassioned orator. Thus when the final blackout comes it is to chants of Malcolm's "Give us the Ballot or the Bullet, the Ballot or the Bullet, the Ballot of the Bullet..." The hypnosis the cries generate is appropriate, however inadequate they may be as statements for programmatic action...
...pyrotechnics the Who's songs are emphatically not crude jingles. Their music is intelligent and comes over best on a good stereo set. Nevertheless their show in person is equally a must. If for no other reason then for the instrument smashing...
...Nevertheless all this belief in a machine-age utopia is predicated on the existence of the proper relationships between people. A long jolting brilliant piece called "Dialectics of Liberation" explores the meaning of such transcendent consciousness and its possibility...
...justify," he said. Neither, he continued, would he attempt to "rationalize and defend" the Big Board's complex fee schedule, which is partly based on the number of shares and partly on the amount of money involved in a stock transaction. SEC Lawyer Eugene Rotberg nevertheless pressed him for reasons-and it became evident that the logic behind the fees is a bit baffling...