Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the French cinema was being defended against was the tax-greedy government. Though the exhibitors seemed to be cutting off their gross to spite their face, they were also cutting off-with the only and most dramatic means available-the 24% of that gross sluiced away in a special tax. "The survival of French cinema is at stake," declared Director René Clair. And though the industry suffers from many ills, he continued, "the worst problem right now is this taxation." Clair's polemics came at a wellrehearsed, Defend French Cinema Day press conference that was followed...
Defenders of the Harvard Department point out that, in spite of these results, the Department as a whole was rated first in the country by the same poll. But this is often explained in part by a kneejerk reflex to the word "Harvard"; about 70 per cent of Harvard's departments were top-rated in a more general poll some years ago. Also, since until recently Harvard produced more Ph.D.'s than any other university, many respondents may merely have been supporting their alma mater...
...spite of the fact that the May 2nd position on Vietnam is shared by few (NOT EVEN SEN. MORSE!), it receives constant attention from the editors of this newspaper. At the same time, attempts to engage in the kind of debate, which , I am told, is essential in our society are repeatedly and rather suspiciously thwarted by the CRIMSON's refusal to publish dissenting letters (though the CRIMSON has called for them one which I wrote more than six weeks...
Many members of the squad will be out for the Varsity next year, but the competition will be stiff. In spite of the Varsity's relatively poor 9-15 record this year, most of the squad members will return next year, each with one or two years of experience...
...still impatiently complains of all the delays and red tape in disbursing funds. "Peru is being studied to death," he recently told U.S. officials. "We have pre-surveys, pre-pre-surveys, pre-investment surveys, pre-pre-investment surveys. Committees of experts study us. Everybody studies us, and in spite of all these studies, Peru is moving ahead...