Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the record, accentuated by the driving rhythm of the congas, is the sense of urgency. "Time," the Poets say, "is running out." And for the Bobby Seales of today (the Malcolms of a few years ago), time is truly short. In spite of, or even possibly because of, the fact that people like Angela Davis and Seale have become part of the "cause" among white students, they have a minority of blacks with them. The Last Poets, like the Panthers, try to create a sense of community, a community which is free and whole...
...spite of the fact that a wide variety of governments turned up on the DAS roster-there were two unfailing characteristics which defined the work of its teams: 1) each client nation was headed by a non-Communist government which remained open and often friendly to American capital investment and 2) in each field project, the overwhelming priority was to raise that nation's Gross National Product without as much thought or attention to the social effects of growth or the basic fairness of that country's political-economic structure...
...circuitous route of raising the GNP and letting the free market mechanism do the job on its own. What that meant in terms of social policy was to encourage the growth of private industry and capital through tax exemptions and other incentives for the rich. Nevertheless, in spite of a slight rise in growth that benefited the wealthier class, this scheme was patently unsuccessful in eradicating the regional inequalities...
...open letter to Ms. Varda Murrell: Although the womanifestoes of your movement seem to me to be womental herstrionics, I can bear the threat of seeing womanacles on the male. In spite of your monuwomental attempts at a neoro-womantic revolution, your womanifest destiny, as sure as womenopause, is to be a revolutionary womanque, you and all your sheroes, Kate Millett, Gloria Steinem, old Uncle Tom Montagu, et al. But I turn purple as a girlsenberry when I see the wo-manner in which you try to womanipulate the Manglish Language for your inhu-woman purposes...
Baathist leaders in Baghdad and Damascus for continuing their feud in spite of the Israeli threat, and has criticized the fedayeen commando groups for lack of unity-while plying them with several million dollars in donations and training facilities in Libya...