Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Happy Days is blatantly ironic. Throughout the play, the outlook--both literal and figurative--is bleak. Death and annihilation are imminent. The whole work is a study in irony--and the irony, in both word and action, is heightened by the ludicrous situational context. And it is ludicrous. In spite of all the pathos and the spectre of death. Happy Days is on balance a comedy. Many of Winnie's actions are highly funny, and she is by no means reluctant to crack puns. There is also no shortage of incongruity, which is often considered the main wellspring of humor...
...spite of the script, Mondo Cane is a gripping and sometimes extremely moving film. The most powerful scene was filmed on an island near Bikini, showing how animals and birds have been violently affected by the radiation from H-bomb tests. Fish have come out of the water to live in trees, and birds have tunneled underground, never to fly again. Other birds have been trying for years to hatch eggs killed by the bomb, and sea turtles whose sense of direction has been destroyed by radiation crawl inland and die after laying their eggs. After a panorama shot...
...spite of this deficiency, the average compensation for full-time faculty members increased this year from $15,106 to $15,700, still the highest of any college in the country...
Almost from the moment that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, physicists and businessmen have been promising that peaceful and cheap nuclear electricity was just around the corner. The corner has been tough to turn. Early estimates of cost and efficiency were overly optimistic; private utilities were wary in spite of $1.3 billion spent on AEC research and generous Government fuel-cost waivers and reimbursements for design work. But now the corner has been rounded, and commercial nuclear power has gone critical...
...offered other actresses with box-office names roles that Geraldine Page has eventually been given by default-Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth-and each time Page has won an Oscar nomination. Doing films as a kind of part-time moonlighter, she has become a movie star in spite of herself...