Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restricted by article nine of her constitution to "self-defense"; she is thus incapable of protecting other countries militarily from Communist aggression or infiltration. Furthermore, because numerous types of credit must be offered in exporting to these non-industrialized countries, trade is often difficult to engineer. And, in spite of racial and cultural affinities, bitter memories persist of Japanese exploitation and military control in World...
...intentions of those whom he joins. In Rashomon, the intrusion of the bandit's passion challenges a stable marriage, casts doubt on each witness's version of the rape scene, and brings about death and disgrace. In Seven Samurai, the outsider joins the mission of the samurai in spite of their rejection of him, and becomes their sustaining force as they fight on behalf of the farmers...
...difficult book for which to gather facts: in spite of the Indian government's large expenditures on behalf of the ex-Untouchables, New Delhi has made little effort to gather meaningful statistics about them. Most of Isaac's information is drawn from about 50 interviews with educated ex-Untouchables, and by using direct quotation the author lets his subjects write much of the book themselves. The depth-interview technique, which Isaacs used to successfully in his important study, The New World of Negro Americans, reduces (or should one say elevates?) abstract Untouchability to the level of concrete human experience...
...championship twice. He's also the only fighter in the world who lost the heavyweight championship twice. Floyd Patterson, 30, broods about it. What do the folks out there think of him? He got some idea 21 years ago when his neighbor in Scarsdale built a 6-ft. spite fence between their houses. Floyd had an even better notion. He built a fence between his face and the world. Ever since, he has paid his own personal exterior decorators $3,000 a year to camouflage his phiz whenever he mingles with the public. Decked out in a false nose...
...spite of the efforts of the Group Theatre in the 1930's, the hit mentality and star system continued to govern Broadway. Rising costs increased the risk of producing a Broadway show and decreased the number of successful (profitable) ventures. Shows in the fifties had to be bigger money-makers than before to cover their expenses, and to insure large audiences producers would seek out more popular stars (regardless of whether or not they could act). Despite this subservience to popular taste, profits declined as costs rose still more, tickets became more expensive, and New York theatre attendance dropped...