Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backed by a quintet that includes his brothers, he begins to play. The style, limned in his characteristic parallel octaves, is mellower, more melodic than before; but every note still throbs with bluesy feeling. The purists start snapping their fingers in spite of themselves, and they join the pop, rock, and rhythm-and-blues fans in applauding...
...spite of Michener's long-windedness, no single book since V. S. Pritchett's The Spanish Temper and Gerald Brenan's The Face of Spain has succeeded so well in embracing the country's history and culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality of the Spanish character-which Michener sums up in one evocative word, duende, meaning "mysterious and ineffable charm." All the immemorial sights are here too: the revelry following the feria at Seville, the impact of the roomful of Velázquez paintings at the Prado, the soaring, glowing Gothic church...
...point clear?... Yet in spite of these remarks Ralph McGill is invaluable, because the South needs his voice on civil rights. By the same token, however, Senator Fulbright, whom your "profile" writer permits Mr. McGill to criticize without rebuttal as a pathetic "sort of character with a great liberal reputation," is equally invaluable--obviously not because he votes against open housing legislation but because the nation needs his voice on foreign policy...
...insurgency. Academic guerrilla warfare was initiated by blacks at Howard, and copied successfully by blacks at Boston University and without the help of black students, whose presence in the first occupied building prevented it from being busted the first day, the Columbia demonstration would not have succeeded. But in spite of this, either because white power controls the media or just because it was the culmination of a long string of student rebellions, the Columbia demonstrations represent a watershed in the drive for student sovereignty...
...populace. He has done everything in his power to give all Atlantans a reason to be proud of their city. Georgians have roundly condemned the actions of our exceedingly small Governor. Atlanta remained dignified mostly because of Mayor Allen and the students of Atlanta University and in spite of Governor Maddox...