Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without quite rejecting the Italian proposal outright, the State Department raised a couple of negative-thinking objections: 1) the Middle East would look upon the fund as an extension of NATO in spite of everything, 2) European countries would be repaying Marshall Plan loans in their own currencies, so the proposed fund would have no dollars; accordingly the Middle East countries would probably use the loans to buy goods and services from Europe, not from...
...spite of all the talk about giving the children of the proletariat first crack at higher education, those actually getting it are the children of "Party officials, civil servants, officers of the armed forces and other elite groups ... A French student who attended Moscow University in 1948 and a German student who enrolled at Leningrad University in 1953 estimated that some 50% of the student body were of such background while well under 10% were distinctly of working-class origin...
Ronald L. Nuttall '59 asserted that abolishing the Council would be "cutting off our nose to spite our face." He opposed a referendum on the grounds that "the Council would probably lose" because "the students are ignorant of the Council's functions...
...three characters of Sartre's morality play find themselves in a hotel room where they must tear each other's guts out in spite and frustration like hideous ghouls from Dante. One is a Lesbian who seduced a happily-married woman and drove her to commit suicide. The other woman in this drawing-room Hades is far less willing to acknowledge her evil. She has killed her baby in front of her lover and he blew his brains out afterwards. The third and most intelligible character is a "fearless" journalist who helped himself to all the indulgences due a hard...
Essential Values. Pasternak dutifully wrote Feltrinelli to get his manuscript back. The publisher, himself an Italian Communist, refused on the grounds that the decision had been forced on Pasternak. In spite of a visit from Alexei Surkov, secretary of the writers' union, Feltrinelli went ahead with plans to publish the book "as a service to the author." (U.S. publication is expected next spring...