Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lounge chair; Jackie's bedroom has twin beds, a French desk, and is papered in a mixed pink-on-white flower print. Outdoors, one modern contraption terrifies passersby: a hidden, wired loudspeaker, manned by a security detail, that thunders "What do you want?" at would-be visitors. In spite of Glen Ora's baronial atmosphere, some presidential staffers have complained that it offers no place to loll about during a meeting, except on the floor...
...concludes that the spacious garden city is not the answer for relocating refugees from the urban slums. "The new towns of the future," says the report, "may well find it important to aim at a more truly urban design," congested, commercial and happenstance. Apparently, the modern city dweller, in spite of all he puts up with, cannot live without...
Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College Area Amphitheater: Moliėre's The Doctor in Spite of Himself...
Last week, on a British-owned farm, 200 workers-victims of the Burumatare syndrome-quit work in terror, refused to return to their jobs in spite of the owner's attempts to reassure them. "Our hearts are different to yours, master," they said. At the suggestion of his African foreman, the farmer painted 200 rubber bands white and slipped one on the wrist of each laborer. Only then did the local natives finally return to work, confident in the power of the white master's juju magic...
This much is a story of indifference; the court trial that frames it is a drama-and occasionally a melodrama-of incomprehension. The judges who try Dominique refuse to believe that she shot her man in blind despair growing out of her love for him, not premeditated spite. They listen stolidly when her defense attorney tells them that she had been treated heartlessly, hide flickering lust with censoriousness when the prosecution relentlessly details her love affairs. Hopelessly, she lashes at the judges: they are old men in silly robes, they cannot understand, they are dead. That night she commits suicide...