Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tess Slesinger was born in New York City in 1905. Before dying of cancer 39 years later, she wrote a novel, several screenplays, and these stories. In spite of all that's happened since then, all the events, discoveries and changes that have sent social historians scurrying for their notebooks and anyone with any sense running for cover, Slesinger's women express all the sorts and conditions of lives that women lead today. The stories aren't timeless, for social conditions are drastically changing and, hopefully, some of the emptiness Slesinger's characters endure will soon no longer exist...
This writer is a man. The only one of all Slesinger's characters, who really finds self-fulfillment and self confidence is male Slesinger, in spite of everything, is a woman who lived and wrote four decades ago. These words must represent the way she felt about her own writing, but she could not make their honest power and sexuality come it from a woman's mouth...
...state's case against Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin appears to rest on the premise that the hysterotomy operation was a birth and not as abortion, in spite of either the patient's of the doctor's intention. A hysterotomy involves incision into the womb and detachment of the placenta from the uterine wall, and the prosecution says that when the placents was detached cutting off the fetus's dependence on the mother, that fetus was born. It alleges that Edelin, by allowing the fetus to die in the course of the operation, is guilty of manslaughter...
...Saudi Arabia's King Faisal, 68, and Algeria's President Houari Boumedienne, 50. Each, by his own lights, sought to sound a conciliatory note. In another way, the two offered a startling contrast. As Boumedienne told the TIME group, "King Faisal and I have good relations in spite of the fact that he feels committed to one generation and I to another...
Traditionally, two of Harvard's major educational goals have been, as Dean Rosovsky said in his letter, a "broad acquaintance with the major areas of knowledge" and a "detailed knowledge of a single subject." Such goals have, perhaps, an eternal educational validity almost in spite of change. Even now, when the second is becoming increasingly important, the first is still invaluable, for without a broad perspective, a single area of detailed knowledge can only exist in a vacuum. And basically, without a broadly based foundation of general knowledge, an informed decision concerning a field of concentration is impossible...