Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides, Bolt and Lean wrote Ryan's Daughter as they did because that's how to make it pay its way. If, in spite of its maladresse, Ryan's Daughter does make money, it will be because of its forebears in film and fiction. They taught its audience that the aristocratic sensibilities and wealthy surroundings which Ryan's Daughter's characters flaunt are the best things life has to offer. Here even something so apparently neutral as the film's spectacular cinematography shows its true reactionary colors...
...University Radical Union (URU), "a group of radical socialist, mainly graduate students and young faculty, who work in, around, and in spite of Harvard University," has published the first issue of a new magazine, Upstart...
...telling anomaly of the 1967 Middle East war is that Israel, in spite of capturing vast stretches of Arab territory, actually ended up with a border 68 miles shorter than before the fighting. Reason: the present de facto lines are straighter. They are also much easier for Israel to defend. In any peace negotiation, therefore, a crucial question will be how much of this occupied territory Israel will be willing to relinquish and how much it will insist on retaining to preserve border security. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Marsh Clark made a threeday, 465-mile tour along Israel...
...officials because it was "too openly erotic." Another ballet based on a picture by Picasso was also vetoed. Makarova quarreled with the grande doyenne of the Kirov Ballet, Madame Natalia Dudin-skaya, because she "preferred to try and impose her own rather stereotyped interpretation of each part." In spite of these disputes, she concedes: "I was at the top. I had danced all the leading roles in our national ballet repertoire...
...network of communes available to them. Benjamin Zablocki. a Berkeley sociologist who has visited more than 100 communes in the past six years, insists: "The children are incredibly fine. It's natural for children to be raised in extended families, where there are many adults." Yet in spite of the talk of extended families, the extension in the new communes does not reach to a third generation. Indeed, the "families" have a narrow age span, and it is possible that the children have never seen an adult over...