Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will never cease to puzzle me how so many people can be so deceived for so long in spite of all evidence against their delusion. Even some parents of cult members will defend to the death the madmen who enslave their children's minds. Fortunately for me, God has special providence for fools and idiots, and some of us escape. I was one of the few lucky ones to escape with my life and sanity still intact...
...probably the liveliest intellectual hubbub to hit Paris since the early 1950s, when Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre startled other leftist intellectuals by defending Stalin's ironfisted regime, in spite of its excesses. This time the furor revolves around a group of young intellectuals, most of them lapsed Marxists, who are now attacking Marxism as an evil, obsolete ideology that leads inevitably to totalitarianism. The "New Philosophers," as they are known, have become overnight celebrities-featured on magazine covers and on TV talk shows. The New Philosophers have no wide popular following and are unlikely to have much impact...
More black leaders are beginning to make the point that in spite of the continuing racism that is still a barrier to opportunities, the underclass must help itself out of its morass. In his pulpit style, Chicago's the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of the Operation PUSH self-help group, says: "It is bad to be in the slum, but it is worse when the slum is in you. The spiritual slum is the ultimate tragedy. The victimizer is responsible for us being down, but the victim is responsible for us getting up." Jackson has called for neighborhood volunteers...
Sillitoe handles his hero's awakening with compassion-and with none of the prattling about narrowness blighting young lives that could serve as the moral of such a tale. If anything, his message is the reverse: people can learn in spite of what they are taught; the residue of ignorantly directed affection is both pain and the memory of love. At the end William muses: "His father had pushed him into it [the army] but he forgave him for that: we have to forgive our parents if we want our children to forgive us." In a different context, this...
Indeed, the once serious world of haute couture, seemingly oblivious to the voices that have prophesied its doom, sparkles with youth and joie devivre. This in spite of the fact that most of the designers are taking their inspiration from bygone eras and remote cultures. But if the collections last week are any indication, a remembrance of fashions and times past, translated into the present with bravura, can itself make history -or at least contemporary magic...