Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...textbook on the subject, simply entitled Child Psychiatry, which rated massive reviews (more than three columns in TIME, July 15, 1935) In 1941 Author Kanner took his case directly to the people with a book for laymen, In Defense of Mothers,*- revealingly subtitled: "How to Bring Up Children in Spite of the More Zealous Psychologists." "And More Blah-Blah." In this book Dr. Kanner said: "There is no raid shelter from the verbal bombs that rain on contemporary parents. At every turn they run up against weird words and phrases which are apt to confuse and scare them...
...performance at Tufts has all the stigmata of bad amateurism: elaborate posturing; sporadic and phoney attempts at the proper accents; cliche characterizations; apple-cheeked students looking highly uncomfortable under assumed grey hair. The casting seems to have been done on the eenie-meenie-miney-mo system, but in spite of this and other mis- and malfeasances, the director, Marston Balch, is more to be pitied than censured. Whatever may have been his conception of the play, this motley crew is incapable of rendering it. Some, of course, are better than others, but only Frederick Blais, as an affable but reverend...
...Moscow, where parties are judged by the quantity and quality of Russian officials who attend, the U.S. party was a smashing success. Some attributed it to the popularity of Ambassador Thompson, others felt it was another sign that coexistence is still Soviet policy in spite of Khrushchev's blustering. Said one Western observer: "It was as if the U-2 incident and the summit collapse had never happened. The descent from the summit seems to have halted at the halfway mark...
...spite of this loss last Thursday, the boat enjoyed a second chance Friday morning. Under rowing's unique "repechage" system, a crew defeated in a first host could compete again for the Olympic position...
...spite of this cloudy past, the Harvard Summer School, the oldest in the nation, with 1960 making the 85th consecrative session. Professor Asa Gray started vacation sessions in 1872. For a six-week period, he gave special instruction in Botany, a successful experiment repeated following year by Professor Louis Agassiz. Other members of the Lawrence Scientific School--now part the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--later offered courses in Chemistry and Geology for their private benefit. Thus the Summer School was born, quietly, unnoticed by his historians or by the outside world...