Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adams, as a founder of "Group f/64" with Edward Weston, became an advocate and practitioner of "straight" photography. Nevertheless, his pictures at times achieve the character of abstract paintings. The enlarged wood-grains of "Detail of Old Wooden Cross' are the strokes of the painter's brush. The suppression of the background of "Rain Forest Kileuea" into middle grays sets off the few black tree trunks in the foreground and gives the jungle a surrealistic quality reminiscent of the paintings of Rousseau...
Anticipating growing competition, Aeolian in 1951 moved Ivers & Pond south to Memphis and built the company's largest and most modern piano plant. It was close to the supply of high-grade wood, opened untapped markets, and, for a while at least, labor costs were considerably lower. Nevertheless, even a low-priced piano takes about six weeks to manufacture, while a more expensive one can take up to six months. As President Henry R. Heller Jr.-the grandson of the company's co-founder-puts it: "We can mass-produce to a point, but when you reach...
...Nevertheless, Sengstacke is so confident of the future that last October he bought the eight ailing Pittsburgh Courier weeklies. This fall, he plans to make the local reporting of each of his papers available to all the others and rely much less on the wire services...
...Saigon threw out the misleading information that no more than 75,000 troops were actually available for combat. But Pentagon sources quickly pointed out that the figure failed to include artillerymen, engineers, signalmen, reconnaissance men and helicopter crewmen-none of them infantrymen, true, but all of them combat forces nevertheless. A more realistic figure, the sources conclude, is between 100,000 and 110,000 combatants out of the Army's 302,000 troops in Viet Nam, plus 68,000 of the 79,000 Marines...
...Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast) is an outstanding biography of that tragic revolutionary. But Deutscher is clearly also his own ideologue, surveying the Russian Revolution for his own romantic needs. This book offers a particularly revealing insight into the thinking style of an intellectual heretic who nevertheless remains a devout Marxist...