Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good as Lear's book is in documenting the political maneuverings, it nevertheless suffers from certain organizational and stylistic flaws. Although his prose is generally smooth and well-crafted, he occasionally goes into inordinate scientific detail that would discourage all but the most intrepid layman from finishing his book...
With all this understood, there is no doubt a large element of moral catharsis involved in an exposition of Engelhard's misdeeds. Nevertheless, the question -- now clearly moot -- must be asked: Should Harvard have accepted this gift...
Ironically, Hoffman's painter colleagues who specialized in pessimistic views about the world expressed frequent feelings of pity for "poor Hans" who nevertheless adhered to a brighter view of things--a view which his canvases reflect. Hoffman, perhaps not in-coincidentally, was one of the few major abstract expressionists who did not commit suicide or experience periods of mental instability...
...despite a federal ban on interstate shipments, and have succeeded in recent years in getting 17 states to legalize its use. They scored another success recently when the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that terminally ill cancer patients could procure the injectable form of Laetrile for personal use. Nevertheless, scientific proof that the drug works is lacking...
...before the trial begins, the experimental plan must be filed for approval with the Food and Drug Administration, whose commissioner, Donald Kennedy, has in the past called Laetrile a "fraud" and "useless." Nevertheless Kennedy too would doubtless like the Laetrile monkey off his back, and he is expected to approve the plan...