Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...internecine squabbling, the allies had clearly lost their gathering momentum both on the military front and in the drive to bring social and economic reform to the villages. As for the hard battlefield cost, opinion was divided. Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp Jr., the U.S. Pacific commander, thought that in spite of the turmoil, "we are doing quite well." Less sanguine officers closer to the conflict noted a sharp drop in South Vietnamese operations. One result was that for the first time in the war, U.S. combat deaths for a one-week period (ending April 9) outnumbered South Vietnamese...
Anyway, the house at length becomes overcrowded with monsters and beach people, until a chain reaction sets in and Ghost spirals down to a groovy finish. In the interim director Don Weis proves himself no cigar, but a half-decent movie and a promising new genre emerge in spite...
SIBELIUS: SYMPHONY NO. 5 (Columbia). Leonard Bernstein, conducting the New York Philharmonic, is at his best in the expansive, triumphal affirmation of the last movement but, in spite of mighty swells of sound, seems a little somnolent in the andante (where Von Karajan, on Deutsche Grammophon, creates a brooding tension). Bernstein has more overall success in the rich tone poem Pohjola's Daughter, about a maiden who sits high on a rainbow preferring, for some reason, to weave rather than be wooed...
...Board of Censors, which had approved the film, last week threatened to resign. The "Manifesto 1789," signed by French leaders in all walks of life, protested "against the formal attack on liberty of expression" that the ban signaled to them. The French film industry may well, out of spite, make Suzanne the nation's sole entry next month in the Cannes film festival, where no exhibition license is necessary...
...spite of widespread national concern about the inequity and inefficiency of the draft, an effective overhaul of the Selective Service Act will almost certainly not occur until the Act comes up for renewal in 1968. But there is one simple change which Congress could and should make now. Two year service in the domestic or foreign peace corps should count as a complete and legitimate alternative to military service...