Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special horrid type of love-story--the sort that appears in periodicals of the "True Romance" ilk. For the most part, she achieves her effect subtly, but she spoils the total impression by an occasional broad and incongruous touch. The borderline between burlesque and satire is a hazy one; nonetheless, the two don't mix well. A few enlightened omissions from "Afraid of Happiness" could have avoided the combination of these techniques and made the story into a consistently amusing piece, instead of an entertaining but periodically annoying...
...followed by hysterical female titters. "It was a most unfortunate noise," announced harassed Miss Williams, "but hardly a bark. It was a sort of woof." But TIME'S London bureau checked the question carefully with earwitnesses. Chanza, they reported, had definitely barked -"a wuffly bark," but a bark nonetheless...
Subluxation Adjustment. Chiropractic, founded by an Iowa storekeeper named Daniel David Palmer, has flourished for 52 years in spite of considerable hell (from the A.M.A.) & high water. It now has some 30,000 U.S. practitioners, is recognized in 44 of the 48 states. (It is illegal, but is practiced nonetheless, in New York, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Louisiana...
...Dean Hanford had said that the tutoring school system "affects unfavorably the standards and morale of the undergraduates." Nonetheless in 1936 a Student Council poll disclosed that from two-thirds to three-fourths of the student body was enrolled in cram courses. But some unwary tutors were already beginning to fill out their own death warrants as they prepared unabashed digests of textbooks with sources clearly marked on the pamphlets. Publishing firms initiated copyright suits against many schools...
...Bender will inherit in all its complexity from Dean Hanford next July: how to relax the veteran and Keep Harvard from becoming a round-the-clock grind factory. This is no easy task, with graduate schools expecting their peak demand for admission to last longer than in the College. Nonetheless, a greater emphasis on activities, more efficiently run activities, a Student Activities Center--in general, more official interest in the extra-curriculum, might help to alleviate what it known, in quotes, as "student apathy...