Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of Italy's veneer of Americanism, however, a tourist feels more an outsider there than in Franco or England. The monuments and the works of art he has come to see are completely unrelated to the realities of post-war Italy: the beggars, the unemployment, the poverty, the ruins. Many of the rivers are still spanned by U. S. army Bailey bridges set on the bombed rubble on ancient edi- fices. Inflation is particularly bad in Italy--the lira is a mere fiftieth of its prewar value. American wallets were much too small for the wads of paper money...
...foreign policy, the record of President-Congress cooperation was much better than on the domestic front. Bipartisan policy was continued this year with the North Atlantic Treaty, the Mutual Assistance Program, and extension of ERP. The Administration succeeded in extending reciprocal trade agreements in spite of strong Republican opposition...
...spite combining housework with homework, the Missus at Radcliffe has one up academically on her unmarried classmates. Not a single married student now in the College or in last year's graduating class ranked below Group Five, Dean's Office listings show...
Holland seems actually better off than France and Italy in spite of having meat rationing and insisting that tourists keep track of the money they spend. A sure sign of this is that man in Holland is offended if you refuse the cigarette he offers while the Frenchman or Italian does not expect you to take...
...spite of these criticisms, however, Blitzstein's work is a success, and not only because he shows that an American can write a serious musical which is theatrically effective. The libretto--which he wrote himself--is concise with a welcome absence of trivia. The arias get somewhere and the words are skillfully treated in the music. Only once does he allow himself to be led astray by his social conscience into a long scene in which the Negroes make fun of the gossipping society at Regina's ball...