Word: spite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of these statements-which no other liberal Russian writer has made -some specialists feel that the present assault on Evtushenko is an exercise in overkill. "Why pick on Evtushenko?" asks Wayne State University's Vera Dunham, a leading specialist in Russian poetry. "He has never done anyone any real harm. It would make more sense to denounce the men actually responsible for putting Russian writers on trial, and examine the society that made Evtushenko what he is-a brash conformist and rather uncultured Soviet young man." Professor Dunham believes that his critics have no right to expect Evtushenko...
They beat cameramen to keep them from filming policemen beating other people, and newsmen not in spite of the fact they were newsmen but because...
...once proposed Sinclair for the Nobel Prize, told him: "When people ask me what happened in my long lifetime, I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to authorities but to your novels." Sinclair has probably been read as widely abroad as any U.S. writer, and in spite of his antiCommunism, he is particularly popular in the Soviet Union. At recent count, there were 772 translations of his books in 47 languages, published in 39 countries...
...bridge builder, but forgets to find love along the way. In this role, Michael Sacks captures the character's lust for action in the first two acts, but let's down a little in the third. He doesn't quite get at Marat's feeling of emptiness in spite of success, and tends to substitute volume for incisive characterization...
...couldn't help thinking back to a conversation of the previous August with a little guy named Ernie Oravetz. He had grown up in Johnstown, Pa., a stubby (5-4, 150) lefthanded hitter who, in spite of his size, was the best ballplayer in a fast amateur league there at the age of 16. When the scouts turned their heads on him, Ernie bummed a ride to Florida and fought for himself. He led the first three leagues he played in, in hitting, but he never quite made it with the Washington Senators. So he had settled in the high...