Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hung in my office. We will not go into more detail, but the reader turning from page to page will be delighted with the excellence of the material as well as the care that has been shown in the cypos raphy. I who understand those things say it. In spite of our resolution we are persuaded to refer the reader especially to pages...
...Stravinsky holds, is his nearest approach to pure music, the expression of his most complete emancipation from "story" music. But like most men who set formulas for themselves, he has overlooked the divine spark within himself, the spark that made the Sophoclean drama the greatest of human tragedies. In spite of himself, Stravinsky's (Edipus music is dramatic, tragedy-telling, alarming, dreadsome-in short, as exciting as any catastrophe, as comprehensible as any of the passions by which Fate works its will upon the simple soul...
Thus the adjective American, as applied to the United States alone, has been officially outlawed; but only the most awkward terms have been found to replace it. United Statesian is a monstrosity, in spite of being logical. Some few Mexicans and Nicaraguans, not impressed by the brotherly attitude of their northern fellow-Americans, employ "Gringo" and "pig" in referring to them, but both of these fall short of being satisfactory. A New Englander suggests "Yankee", but Southerners consider this an insult. The vogue of "Uncle Shylock" abroad has been almost as short-lived as that of "Saviors of Democracy...
...Seniors defeated the Juniors, 39 to 13, in an Inter-Class Basketball League game yesterday afternoon at Hemenway Gymnasium. At the very start of the game the Seniors piled up such a lead that, in spite of their better team play in the second half, the third-year players could not overcome...
...spite of its triumph in the foils, the University fencing team went down to defeat yesterday afternoon at Hemen-way Gymnasium before a strong Columbia team by a score...