Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When times are good, people travel, and the prestige of uniformed people like customs officers is low. This is reflected in the travelers' treatment of us, and in spite of orders, an occasional officer will rough back at it. We are educating our officers -but who is educating the public? Courtesy is a two-way street...
...Swiss exchange, after peaking as New York did in February, is off 18%. Amsterdam's market has lost 25% of its values this summer, and West Germany's markets are off 20% since February. Paris' bourse, in the doldrums longer than Wall Street, is sagging in spite of large stock purchases by French banks on orders from De Gaulle's government...
...spite of a few unconvincing utterances from the trumpets, the Gabrielli was most satisfactory. While here and in the Sarti one might have hoped for a slightly less room-fulling sound from the organ, the ecclesiastical air of the music was quite effective. Soloists for the In Ecclesiis were Sally Thomas, Soprano; Pamela Gore, alto; Carl Schmidt, tenor; and James Jonse, baritone. The Sarti Fugue, a double fugue of a relatively primitive sort, demonstrated the ability of the singers to make a somewhat intricats, overworked piece into a worthwhile listening experience...
...born in Havana of musical Polish-immigrant parents, won a piano scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, then at 18 went to New York in search of "a room some place where I could develop pianistically the way I felt I wanted to." Instead, almost in spite of himself, he appeared as a soloist with the Boston and NBC symphonies, astonished the New York critics with a masterly debut recital at Carnegie Hall, made a few recordings for Columbia, and embarked on a concert career...
...into hostile territory with insufficient military preparation and protection to their almost certain (and quite pointless) death; who was convicted of one desertion of his own troops and was suspected of others; who either committed perjury or at least gave incorrect, damaging testimony in court to satisfy a personal spite; who disobeyed specific orders given by the one friend he seems to have retained and the one general who intervened in his behalf; who presumably planned the sacrifice of the lives of the bulk of his command in order to achieve a minor piece of personal military glory...