Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot drink a glass of beer without its dilution in Handel's Water Music," Author-Critic Jacques Barzun wrote recently, in describing the amazing musical saturation of the U.S. atmosphere. This week Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein (see PEOPLE) enthusiastically echoes Barzun's point that "in spite of our perennial croaking about America's neglect of the arts, the country spends more money for music than the entire rest of the world." Since the hi-fi revolution, a growing slice of that money has been spent on records, which have created a magnificent "concert hall without walls...
...varsity fencing team rolled up an impressive 18-9 win over M.I.T. last night, in spite of two last-minute changes in the starting lineup. Both Mike Woolf and Don Tingle fell ill barely an hour before the match, but coach Edo Marion's substitutes managed to save the sabre...
...Cancer Patient." Pilot Murphy was hired by the Dominican Airline six weeks before Galindez vanished, was made a copilot in spite of defective eyesight, which had barred him from U.S. military or commercial flying. Cocky and buoyant, he settled in Ciudad Trujillo, flew in and around the Dominican Republic for ten months. And one of the flights, he boasted in indiscreet moments last summer and fall, had been a hush-hush special job. His plane, he said, had taken Scholar Galindez, disguised as a "cancer patient," from the U.S. to the Dominican Republic...
...miserable, terrified little child." When he was eight, Sam took him to the synagogue, and noticed that when the choir began to sing, Lennie was so moved that he began to cry. As for the organ ? "It was the Mighty Wurlitzer itself to me." De spite his interest in the neighbor's piano, the Bernsteins never had a musical instrument in the house until Lennie was ten. Then they were saddled with a "brown upright horror" that Aunt Clara wanted to get rid of. To Lennie it sounded like a seraph's harp. His reluctant parents ? who really...
...shabby, ill-lit building on Newbury Street, the school has for 38 years been giving children with grave speech defects their chance to lead a more normal life. Some of its pupils are stammerers or have cleft palates. Others are epileptics, spastics, mongoloids or deaf-mutes. In spite of dealing with a wide range of handicaps, the school has chalked up quite a record: in the last five years it has enabled 200 once seemingly hopeless children to enroll in the regular elementary school system...