Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tall among them, in spite of a blunder that early in the week threatened to bring high-voltage bolts crashing down around him, was Adlai Stevenson. In a curbstone television interview, Stevenson nearly threw away months of patient missionary work among Southern Democrats by saying he believed that the party platform "should express unequivocal approval of the [Supreme] Court's decision." Next night the interview appeared on film, and the Southerners blazed. But before the boss could be undone by forthright words, Stevenson aides sold the South all over again on the premise that Adlai is indeed...
Natural phenomena and man-made disturbances, in the form of rain and low flying airplanes, are not the perfect adjuncts to a dramatic performance. In spite of these hindrances, however, the Group 20 players' Androcles and the Lion came off smoothly and with great finesse...
...beach at Starmouth, an English seaside resort. The body shows four stab wounds and unmistakable signs of torture. Chief Inspector Gently, Central Office, C.I.D., a Scotland Yard detective who unfortunately pops peppermints into his mouth during tense moments, gives the tale a tone of well-mannered British calm in spite of the neon-lighted boardwalk setting and a lurid cast of characters, which includes a prostitute, a couple of juvenile delinquents, a village idiot and a gang of international spies...
...think its way above or beyond man's subjective moods-it glorifies them. Fear and trembling, guilt and death, are valued by existentialists as concomitants of man's encounter with the void around him and his necessary decision to walk forward in the darkness. For existentialism, in spite of all its talk, is a philosophy of action; words by themselves do not count. "One who murmurs in his beer, 'I wish I were dead,' " writes Michalson, "would only be really existing if he were at that moment quaffing poison." Kierkegaard, says Yale's Niebuhr...
Despite the conviction that U.S. intelligence has consistently overrated Russian airpower, Twining does not feel complacent. Russian achievements in engines, the Red Air Force's ability to work in spite of limited facilities, cannot be ignored. At one point, Twining sat down for a two-hour talk with Soviet Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov, whose importance in the current picture can hardly be overrated. Twining came away convinced that Zhukov was sincere when he insisted that Russia has no thought of attacking the U.S., was wryly amused when Zhukov said that the U.S. overrates Russian power− perhaps, smiled Zhukov...