Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While realizing that our voices do not add very much to yours in spite of your commendably powerful and moderate presentations, we wish to join you in our own small way. We do own a GM car with both its engineering strengths and stupidities, have some investments held in trust as well as directly owned and have 9 children-4 of whom have been exposed to college and the others aspire to be in the future. We commend your ideas to them. We also are sending copies of this letter to President Pusey, the companies involved...
...freshman, I barely squeaked into Theodore Morrison's English Fa, in spite of, rather than because of, my opus. From Professor Morrison I learned about structure and diction, how to rhyme, how to write blank verse, what fourteeners are: the real stuff of verse composition. I learned how to confine myself to form, how to think thoughts of ten beats. I could scan anything, I learned by examples what poetry really was: the structured, symbolic expression of certain ideals, especially the Good and the Beautiful...
...something of a circus-like quality to it. Those who saw them knew exactly what they were coming to hear, and their presentations changed few minds. Above all, the two were a spectacle. People came to find out what they looked like, what they talked like. Still, in spite of it all, they bore their message gracefully and honorably, with a lightness that one would not expect from men who may spend lengthy periods in prison for contempt of Hoffman's court...
Back in the winter of '68-'69 Morrison's Astral Weeks was released, a record which never sold well in spite of a large production push about eight months later. At this point, Morrison had given up such lyrical simplicity...
...discrimination proclamation but neglects to get the message across to department supervisors -the men who actually hire, fire and promote. The result is a type of policy sabotage that Tom Sims, a black advertising man in Manhattan, calls the "not-in-my-department syndrome." That is, in spite of orders from the summit, middle management resists and undercuts the policy of equal opportunity. The resistance is not necessarily based on racism. Some supervisors are simply reluctant to depart from the status quo or make the considerable extra effort to provide training for employees from the ghetto, many of whom start...