Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of a cutback--from 4800 to 3500--in the number of non-Harvard Radcliffe students accepted this year, Thomas E. Crooks, director of the Summer School, expects that the percentage of students from other schools will actually increase...
...After three banzai charges that brought the North Vietnamese within grenade range, the fighting became so close and intense that air strikes and artillery could not be called in. The Americans lost 76 men, including four of the company's five officers. But they dished it out in spite of their losses. Enemy dead were estimated...
After Genevieve. In spite of all this, the 53-year-old Adler has begun to brood that "what I know is likely to die with me." He has started the tricky task of giving formal lessons on a technique that he himself worked out by instinct; meantime, he is turning increasingly to an activity that offers a better chance of enduring fame-composing. Although in his earlier career he boasted that he could neither read nor write music, he eventually learned, and even studied composition with Ernst Toch for a year. In 1953, he got the chance...
...went over to Madison Avenue. For five years he was with Young & Rubicam, selecting shows to suit the sponsors. In 1955 he moved to Thompson, which, in spite of its size, had been slow getting into the enormous new field of TV. Seymour reorganized the radio-TV department, was the agency's show shopper. He did so well that he soon had a hand in all of the agency's activities. Thus, after Stanley Resor died and Strouse was left alone to run the shop, Seymour was a natural choice for president...
...Case of Fire. In this book he is ever a model of discretion. In spite of the jacket's phosphorescent hints of lurid reminiscences about Proust and Picasso, Stravinsky and Nijinsky, the author does not intrude upon their saintly privacies. He also rarely allows the reader to enter into his own. He speaks from a distance, less confessor than professor, looking up from his lectern every few moments to savor appreciative glances...