Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VATICAN. The centerpiece is Michelangelo's Pieta, which draws reverent gasps in spite of its hoked-up blue stage setting. Modern religious arts and crafts are used to advantage throughout the pavilion, the best being a forest of vivid liturgical banners hanging like medieval flags in the main hall...
...spite of these squabbles, the Johnson-Humphrey ticket will carry Texas by a better margin than the Kennedy-Johnson ticket did and might even win sixty per cent of the vote. A private poll conducted in bellwether sections of the state indicates that he is doing handsomely in all areas except in low income, non-Negro neighborhoods where there is some evidence of heavy "white backlash" sentiment...
...proof that builders who are shrewd and careful can ride high in spite of low tides has been provided by the Avondale yards, owned by Manhattan Financier Charles Allen's Ogden Corp., a widely diversified industrial complex (scrap iron, mining equipment, etc.). Avondale has developed a unique mobile assembly line for ships, even builds them upside down so that a welder can work in "downhand" comfort instead of a back-aching "overhead" position. In bidding for orders, Avondale's treasurer, Mrs. Hettie Dawes Eaves, employs a computer that figures the costs of 4,000 operations, is far more...
...topical to be funny? In spite of the current Harlem rioting, Warren Miller, one of the best satirists (Looking for the General) writing in the U.S., has brought the joke off. In this novel about Harlem's first year as a nation, Miller mocks blacks, whites, and the whole racial fuss; yet beneath the hilarity is a clear warning: "Laugh at your peril. It could happen." Writing such a seriocomic novel is a feat of literary acrobatics, but Miller does not lose his balance...
...spite of Khrushchev's frequent hand-shaking with Negroes," stated Eso, Nigerians consider the American political system "far more effective" than the Soviet government in dealing constructively with racial problems...