Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musicians are warmly expansive in the romantic first quartet (1908), pungently Magyar in the second (1915-17), and harshly abrasive in the ugly, expressionist third (1927) with its abusive hammerings and pluckings, yawling glissandos and jerky rhythms. The strings sing again in the last three quartets, which in spite of some jagged polyphony, frequently dissolve into swaying melody. The result is an album of the finest chamber music of the 20th century...
...Paris-Presse goes, so has gone much of the French press. In spite of a rising population, the number of papers in France has declined from 230 in 1938 to 82 today. While there are no brand-name commercials on the Government-controlled television, magazines absorb 60% of the nation's advertising. And even in politically keen France, the new generation is snowing little interest in political news; they find far more excitement on the highways or the beaches than in reading another De Gaulle speech...
...call any writing for the public at large an essay, for essays are considered (so I have observed) intrinsically boring. After some public education by TIME, maybe students will be more likely to regard some of our classics (like Pope's Essay on Man) as more meaningful, in spite of their titles. What made you decide to call these fine comments "Essays...
...real enough danger is that Campos' plan will slow Brazil's economy too rapidly, thus bringing a recession. And this is the fear that Lacerda plays on hardest. He describes his own, somewhat fuzzy economic plan as "a policy of development in spite of inflation." Instead of attacking inflation on all fronts, he would only cut back in certain "state-run monopolies." Rather than reduce credit, he wants to expand it, demands a salary policy that would increase consumer buying power, and asks an end to commodity controls. Says Lacerda: "I would give more money to agriculture...
...spite of the derision that some have heaped on the idea that major infiltration has been taking place via sea lanes, I think this conclusion is justified. Let us consider...