Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of the overall pessimistic financial picture, there were some bright spots in last week's budget disclosures...
...those staying around Boston in spite of the three-day week-end, Columbus day holds a special treat in store. Rod Stewart and the Faces will be performing at the Garden to help celebrate the discovery of America. Although the Faces aren't doing anything new, they still churn out plenty of good time rocking and their leadisinger continues to be one of the more dynamic personalities in rock music. Incidentally, thus could well be the last time Stewart will be performing with his mates, as Ron Wood's Ston/Face dulemma has been a continual threat to the group...
...watched American movies with mouth-dripping envy, fantasizing about the day when we too will have those shiny Formica kitchens, the big cars with lots of chrome, blinking computers everywhere, Las Vegas, Gary Cooper. It seemed like paradise, but good old Richard Cory just went and shot himself. In spite of its inane aspects, the recent flood of nostalgia is a healthy rehabilitation of national symbols, a growing out of adolescent shame and embarrassment about "home" and a gradual realization that what is commonly thought of as uncultured, vulgar (i.e., new and unEuropean) is exactly what is unique about America...
...magazine that has many, many problems--not the least of which is a tendency, month after month, to publish the same genre of gut-spilling personal experiences that once provided support for an emerging collective women's consciousness but now are merely boring. In spite of the special topic, this month is no different...
...university has changed for both students and faculty members. Jews now consitute a substantial proportion of the academic community. Yet the rationalization of neutrality, has retained its hold. There are many Jews at this university who still cling to the belief in the religious neutrality of the university, in spite of the imposing church at its center. It has become something of a principle akin to the principle of the separation of church and state, with the difference that now there are more Jews at the University, the corrosive effect of the University's policy toward Judaism affects a substantially...