Word: spite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, Kennedy did not gain those crucial votes, and he will have to rely to some extent on the support of Republicans like Clifford Case to break the conservative group's strangle-hold on progressive legislation. In spite of this, the wide Democratic margins in both houses were left intact, and it is hoped that Kennedy will use the full powers of his new office to swing his fellow Democrats behind his own programs. But it is unfortunate that Kennedy himself, and liberals all over the country, did not gain a more decisive majority of the national electorate...
...Regno, had been hissed offstage by the opening-night audience. A year before he started work on Nabucco, Verdi had seen his two children and his wife die within 21 months of one another. Insisting that he would never write another opera, Verdi was drawn to Nabucco in spite of himself. After he reluctantly agreed to read the libretto (by Temistocle Solera, a minor 19th century poet), he found himself writing "one day a verse, the next day another; one time a note, another a phrase, and little by little the opera." The subject was a natural for mid-igth...
...spite of himself, Dubuffet has at times achieved a sort of beauty-the warmth of a mellow brown-red, the haunted look of some of his globular spooks. But essentially his work cannot be judged by the eye, for he insists that he is addressing the mind. And if the mind reels, that is just the effect Dubuffet wants. "A work of art," says he, "must have a significance so profound, so universal, so numerous and diverse, that each can drink from it the liqueur that he likes. Never explained (to explain would be to exhaust), never totally deciphered...
...spite of an apparent return of $577,000 last year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences actually made no profit and will probably make none this year, since salaries have risen $500,000, according to the annual Financial Report. Of the apparent "profit" $200,000 was transferred to a student loan fund and $400,000 to the principal of the endowment fund...
...religious aspects and contribute from the Asiatic side to the East-West encounter in Japan. The founders and saints of the great Buddhist sects are Chinese. China is the mother, she remained the mother in the Chinese-Japanese war and she has not ceased to be the mother in spite of her being conquered by Communism. This emotional element should not be underestimated. (Nothing similar is true in their attitude towards Russia...