Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were to offer a Nation of the Year award, my vote would go to Israel. For the past 19 years, this bastion of democracy has survived in spite of the Arab commandment "harass thy neighbor." This tiny nation may yet fulfill the Biblical prophecy of being a "light unto all nations." Let's hope the U.A.R. is one of the first to see the light...
...great ecological paradox of Harvard music, however, is that in spite of this interdependency and what one would expect to be the common bond of mutual interest in music, many musical groups are guilty of exclusiveness, lack of cooperation, and even open animosity...
...great ecological paradox of Harvard music, however, is that in spite of this interdependency and what one would expect to be the common bond of mutual interest in music, many musical groups are guilty of exclusiveness, lack of cooperation, and even open animosity. The HRO is famous for its possessiveness with regard to personnel, resisting their involvement in any other organization or activity. Equally famous is the hauteur of the Glee Club which, as one member put it, is as much Club as it is Glee; or of WHRBies who walk around wearing "Mozart Forever," and "Back to Bach" buttons...
This attitude results primarily from the peculiar position of the Music Department in relation to the welter of musical activity in the College. In spite of the fact that the conductors of the big musical organizations have positions on its faculty -- and of the two or three professional recitals spon sored throughout the year, or the occasional venture as impresario made by its Pulitzer prize-winning composer-conductor, Leon Kirchner--the Music Department has earned the reputation of being "anti-performance." This may or may not be true of individual members of the department, but it is justified...
...scare any more." It would be more practical, Kirkendall thinks, to teach them contraception. The solution may not be that simple. Some psychiatrists hold that premarital pregnancy, at least, is often due to factors other than ignorance. Psychologist Dr. Rhoda Lorand cites such causes as "the desire to spite the parents, a need for a baby all her own, a desperately lonely girl seeking signs of affection...