Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of everything, each of the opposition parties views itself as the wave of the future. All of them claim to bet getting involved seriously in electoral politics for the first or second time this year, and say that just the fact that their candidates' names appear on ballots proves their potential strength. This time, we don't expect a lot of voter recognition, they say, but wait until next time round. For most of them, it's likely to be a long, long wait...
...spite of the fury of Ethel Barrymore, and both authors' unconvincing protests that the play's Cavendish family had little to do with the Barrymores, The Royal Family ran 345 nights in New York alone before going to London and then on to become one of the most popular and renowned plays of the century. The current revival, now playing at the Wilbur Theater in Boston through November 13, is an enchanting piece of work. It is a warm, witty play about a great acting family on one level, about the theatrical profession on another, and, on a third level...
...broken. It may be questioned in the course of the play, as in the course of their lives, but ultimately it is the foundation upon which everything else is built. To use Fanny Cavendish's own terms, it is what holds the family together and keeps them going. In spite of the pain and loneliness, it is the one thing of real value. When Julie announces that she is leaving the stage forever, in order to "have some fun," Oscar reminds her that as the greatest actress in the theater she has had more "fun" than anyone...
...spite of nagging questions about the reliability of ETS's three-figure quantifications of people's "aptitude," over-worked, understaffed admissions boards and personnel managers continue to rely upon test scores for an easy, quick, "objective" standard. In some parts of the country, state law now sets specific SAT and LSAT cut-off scores for admission to state universities. In the 1971 Federal court case of Baker et al. v. Columbus (Miss.) Municipal Separate School District et al., the court established that the Columbus school authorities' use of the National Teacher Exam (an ETS test) cut-off score...
...that Kissinger sees threatened by radical movements in South Africa are first and foremost Western business interests. In Chile and in Vietnam, it was blatantly obvious that Kissinger was more concerned with protecting U. S. capital than protecting democracy, more interested in defending profits than defending human rights. In spite of superficial differences, the same is true of his policies in Southern Africa...