Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done in reference to China or in our response to foreign crisis anywhere. We are institutionally set up in such a way that we up-play the short-term crisis decision, the command decision for meeting the emergency, and we down-play the long-term planning. In spite of all the paperwork that passes and all the contracts that are made with researchers and all the fads in various buildings, we don't have a long-term program which is a dominant guideline to what we do. This is a part of our being pragamtic, it is part...
...spite of these shortcomings, the word that kept coming to mind was "exquisite." Jaime Laredo's near-flawless intonation enabled him to give the most moving rendition of the "Kreutzer's" opening double-stop solo I have ever heard. As one member of the audience said, it was a pleasure to sit back and to listen to a violinst without having to cringe. As a team the Laredos often seemed to compete with each other. But when they both agreed on a sound, the effect was breathtaking--as when Mrs. Laredo brought herself to match her husband's pianissimo...
...says this, saying it's me?" And perhaps to understand Beckett's sullen craft and art fully, it is best to recall that age during which all human voices almost automatically speak poetry-childhood. Then, too, the voice is a plaything, a comforter in the dark. In spite of his tottering old men, Beckett is more the toddler; he is the child at bedtime who says "No!" with all of his heart and then gently holds out his hand. And like the child, too, in his awful ambivalence, he is beyond-and before-judgment, so close does...
...thought out with the utmost care. Shure employed a range of dynamics and special colorings that would be the envy of any pianist. While at times they produced a rather exaggerated effect, their use had obviously been meticulously planned way ahead of time. The last movement was magnificent in spite of several slips of memory...
...spite of some of these characteristics of laymen and clergy--because of others--the church came closer to Barmen than Westminster when it overwhelmingly approved the Confession...