Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead silence blanketed the audience. In each case what happened on the stage was merely a play within a play: the true drama took place in the orchestras, balconies and boxes. After a couple of hours the curtains came down with the voice of the dead girl saying, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart," and her father, who had been bitter, slowly closing her diary and saying, "She puts me to shame...
...settings of overwhelming -if old-fashioned-grandeur and verisimilitude. The dancing, to the Prokofiev score and with few differences from the ballet film now showing in the U.S.. was heavily larded with emotion-laden pantomime. But fragile Ballerina Galina Ulanova danced lightly as a wind-wafted feather in spite of her 46 years. Most critics were ecstatic. The Times critic described her as "now like a flame on the ground, now like a flame leaping in the air." Wrote the News Chronicle: "Her arms and hands raised in flight are sheer poetry." Sadler's Wells' Margot Fonteyn...
...greenish-colored gantry has been brought from White Sands Proving Ground to support the pencil-thin vehicle before it roars off toward space. Scientists gathering for the tests claim to be more worried about the sky-high cost of Florida living than about the performance of their hardware. In spite of many objections, the tests will be as secret as if the peaceful satellite were a military missile armed with an H-bomb...
...until the very end does Face of a Hero diminish in suspense. And in spite of more careless writing than Author Boulle is usually guilty of, his grip on the emotions is as firm as ever-because the book is so uncomfortably a reminder of that streak of injustice that lives in every man. Until the last page Boulle keeps alive the hope that the streak will subside and that conscience will triumph. As a realist-and a Frenchman-can he let anything like that happen...
Another problem which the University must face each year in meeting its financial obligations stems from the fact that in spite of its deceptively large endowment only 15 percent of this total falls into the category of "unrestricted funds." Most of the endowment income is restricted to such specific purposes as research and scholarships...