Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Galbraith asserted that in spite of general increases in national and personal income, some people remain poor today because they lack necessary mental and physical skills. These people are now located principally in congested urban areas and in the rural Appalachian Plateau running from eastern Pennsylvania to Alabama...
...panorama of modern archaeology [Dec. 13] demonstrated many oft-forgotten truths! Among them: genius is still the product of an individual brain; pure scientific research may be utterly unrelated to pyramided teamwork or expensive gadgetry; science is by no means restricted to physics, chemistry and biology, in spite of the fact that neither Nobel (science) Prizes nor most of our high school curricula recognize any other fields; much research of the highest kind can be pursued without resort to higher mathematics or computers; leaders of some religions or orders are scientists first, theologians second, harking back to distant times when...
Love with the Proper Stranger. This romantic comedy-drama succeeds in spite of itself, for it is brimful of enough warmth and hip humor to mask a decidedly rancid plot. The girl Angie (Natalie Wood) is a clerk at Macy's. The boy Rocky (Steve McQueen) is a part-time musician temporarily bunking with a nightclub stripper, Edie Adams. One day at Rocky's union hiring hall, Angie appears and tells him: "I'm gonna have a baby." He blinks at her, then: "Congratulations." He can't remember the girl's name...
...Boston area, but few knew the extent to which Negroes were denied homes here, until the publication last week of a report by the Massachusetts Advisory Committee to the U. S. Civil Rights Commission. What is so surprising about this neighborhood segregation is that it exists in spite of the Massachusetts Fair Housing Act, passed in 1957 and amended in 1963, in spite of its regulatory Commission Against Discrimination, and in spite of voluntary Fair Housing Committees in many cities and towns...
...callous in his lack of concern for the plight of the unloved, illegitimate child and the unwed mother. Of course society is wrong to regard them as something dirty, but in his desire for social revolution Goodman loses compassion for those who must suffer in its wake. And in spite of his insistence on interpersonal values, he speakes as if his major responsibility in marriage is to inconvenience himself by "making it home in time for five thirty dinner every night...