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Word: spites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of its assets, dramatic productions at Harvard lack a certain cohesion that could come about only with the formation of a persuasive backbone: a department. For years, drama enthusiasts at Harvard have been petitioning for a department, to be dismissed year after year. Way back in the 1930s, a professor named George Pierce Baker wanted to form a drama department here, but his plans were thwarted by alleged lack of funds. Baker went on to found the Yale School of Drama. While Harvard each year loses some, like Baker, who transfer to schools more receptive to the needs...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Playing to an Empty House | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...energy. "A person is expressive regardless of whether it's music or not music. I don't speak good English, but I know I am expressive. That's all, I get the idea across, because the idea is there. It's very much there and it gets across in spite of all the grammar you can talk...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Chen Liang-Sheng | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

...Agee had decided to write about the CIA. Increasing disillusionment with the U.S. government in the wake of the Cambodian invasion and the Kent State killings evidently moved Agee to begin to assemble his own list of official crimes committed for God and country. In spite of extensive CIA harassment. Agee finally completed the book last year. An English publisher accepted it after a number of U.S. firms had rejected the manuscript on the grounds that it was too boring...

Author: By James Lemoyne, | Title: Working for the Company | 8/1/1975 | See Source »

INVISIBLE CITIES is an allegory for the mind. Its language, imagery, patterns create a sense of grace and lyricism seldom found in modern realistic fiction, but the joys and the sorrows of this book are cerebral ones, except twice. Once, almost in spite of Calvino's coolly allegorical portrait, Marco Polo expands, just for a moment, into a human character. The emperor has asked him why, in all his tales, he never speaks of Venice, and the explorer responds in restrained, formal language...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: An Empire of the Mind | 7/25/1975 | See Source »

...spite of herself, the biographer has succeeded. She has written one of those windy, overweight Southern books -the Gone With the Wind syndrome -that can do everything wrong except bore the reader. For seven indefatigable years she has tracked her subject: to New York City, where Carson lived in a household that included W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten and Richard Wright, among others; to the obligatory artists' colonies (Yaddo, Bread Loaf); even to London and Paris. Early on, she grabs her fey and monstrous main character by the toe and never lets go. The ghost of McCullers does the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Precious | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

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