Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of his affinity to the community, Samshak has moved the Atma out of the Castle Square Project--for his business was dismally lacking. He had originally hoped to engage in a system of mutual aid with the community, but, as it turned out, nearly all the crowds were coming from the outside. The loss to vandalism was coupled with the more important loss of audiences afraid to go into the South End. Although he claims that "a big burden was relieved from me by leaving the South End," he feels no resentment toward the community. There are problems...
...aggression" (the countercharge, quite properly, will be that the U.S. is willing to accept expropriation if need be but insists that Peru observe international law and make repayment). Yet, in a showdown, most would probably side with Peru because of the sad state of U.S.-Latin American relations, in spite of huge U.S. private investment. Once, other nations in the hemisphere could command U.S. attention by pointing to the threat of Castro subversion. Now, however, Cuban infiltration has failed1 and Castro has been muffled by the Russians as the Soviets seek peaceful expansion and influence in South America...
...their present mess. His cynicism stems directly from his analysis of their situation. As he shows, us the university has become an industrial complex and nothing more. The real business of a university is business. Like any corporation -- or like the United States government -- it functions in spite of sporadic protest movements. If a university is stupid, like Columbia, it gets trapped into a confrontation with its students and comes off with a bad public relations image. If it behaves more strategically, as Harvard does, it avoids such situations. But these incidents are, in any case, relatively inconsequential. The university...
...spite of its less outstanding over-all record (11-6) Princeton remains a formidable barrier to Columbia's hopes for their second consecutive title, and home court advantage will be a factor in the game...
...come here and seek to live, not on the periphery, but in the center. Though blight occasionally and congestion frequently detract from its enjoyment, the visual environment is still among the most pleasing to be found anywhere. We can still say that people come to Harvard not in spite of its environment but partly because...