Word: spite
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Doubleday; 136 pages; $14.95 f ?| n spite of everything, I still believe I that people are really good at heart...
...Pope in modern times has taken such a direct interest in wielding diplomatic influence as John Paul II. Now that the U.S. has become the 107th nation with which it has diplomatic relations, the Vatican may move to establish ties with the world's other superpower. In spite of a general belief in the Vatican that the Soviet KGB was behind the 1981 shooting of the Holy Father, relations with Moscow are surprisingly good. Józef Cardinal Glemp. Poland's Primate, plans to visit the Soviet Union in a few months. Before he leaves. Vatican sources...
Copley never did master the grand manner as prescribed by Reynolds. His huge, ambitious history painting, Watson and the Shark, 1778, is a beloved American classic thanks to, not in spite of, its earnest potpourri of quotations from Titian, Raphael, the Borghese Gladiator and the Laocoon. But at the level of the portrait he was exact and forceful. The tight, heavy faces, didactic hands and subtly registered expressions of Copley's New Englanders read like indexes of American character, and his painting of Thomas and Sarah Mifflin (1773) is one of the great 18th century images of the enlightened...
...been "cut, stabbed, run over, hit by a car, tromped by a horse, robbed, fooled, deceived, doublecrossed, dealt seconds . . . but I am still here." Not even death weakens such a stand. The power of ghosts is that they manage to retain their place in the world in spite of the final obstruction; they insist on their presence. A simple matter, but a basic one. We will do anything to stay around, and to keep others around as well, by way of monuments, ceremonies, books. During the Stalinist terror, the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova stood in line at the Leningrad prison...
...spite of the current setbacks, Abidjan's skyline remains a tribute to the prosperity that has been generated under French-educated President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 78, who has ruled the country since it became independent from France in 1960. With its sleek office towers dominated by the elliptical 30-story post office building, the modular Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie and the new Abidjan Hilton, the city's profile is reminiscent of Florida's Epcot Center. Traffic across the Pont Général De Gaulle bustles every...