Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of the government's attacks and smears, NUSAS continues to gain the support of the English-speaking students. When the government last year banned integrated dances at the Cape Town campus, the students voted not to have any dances at all. The day after the banning was announced last week, 3000 students and professors marched through the streets of Johannesburg in protest...
...thought of a civil rights champion holding forth in the bastion of white supremacy was only slightly less appalling to the South Africans than the prospect of refusing a visa to a possible future president of the United States. By stating his intention to visit South Africa in spite of the banning, Senator Kennedy has refused to abandon the South African students at a time when they most need outside encouragement. By associating himself with the cause of individual liberty in South Africa, he is setting an example which other Americans might follow...
...privilege of watching her last throes. >Louis, the third of Napoleon's four brothers, was a double-gaited dandy who knew a thing or two about bad luck. His wife fell in love with his boy friend. To console himself, Louis wrote wispy verses. In 1809, to spite his brother, he quit his job as King of Holland and ran away to sulk for a couple of years in Austria. In 1814, when the allies invaded France, he had no time to fight-he was too busy correcting proofs of his novel (Marie, ou les Peines...
...says, "when this man claimed that a few notes in my song were similar to his song." Sunflower's David persisted. The case never got to court. As often happens in such situations, the litigants tried to iron things out without publicity. Nevertheless, reported Variety last week, in spite of flat denials and "no comments" from all concerned, Herman's lawyers have settled out of court to the tune...
...belong to an ideal world of concepts and mathematical calculations." Far from a turning away from nature, he feels that his work seeks to penetrate if more profoundly. "I am trying," he says, "to tell the world in this frustrated time of ours that there is beauty in spite of ugliness and horror. I am trying to call attention to the balanced, not the chaotic side of life-to be constructive, not destructive...