Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not argue that the American pie has perhaps been expanding over the last century, but it is yet to be proven that this economic expansion is attributable to, or in spite of the grapplings of the new upwardly mobile business elite. Perhaps Thorstein Veblen had a better understanding of the workings of a capitalist-industrial economy when he detailed the anti-social nature of business. In Veblen's view, business is forced by its basic orientation of profit-seeking into a policy of "sabotage" of production. It must fight against the "inordinate productivity of the machine" by keeping prices...
They are Greeks--most of them from Athens--and in spite of their mobility and their free choice, they are prisoners of the American culture. They had to come here because opportunities for graduate education in their native land do not exist; almost all of the more than 30 Greeks at Harvard are in the GSAS. They say they are alienated from this culture and long to return to Greece when they get their degrees...
...book depends on its originals, it also detaches itself from the concerns of the detective novel. The narrator appears to mock the readers or himself, to perform little changes in the Sherlockian from that betray his aloofness. For instance, in spite of his skillful story, the author endeavors to give the piot a fine little flaw (involving the two women of the adventure). In addition, some of his sentences are disjointed in a profoundly jarring way, as if they have been lifted straight from the canon and scrambled slightly to fit the story here...
...over flaws. Its humor is wicked, in the manner of Waugh, whose comedy was also of matters as well as manners. The characters' resiliency is not less heroic for taking wacky forms. As Weldon proved in Down Among the Women (1973), she loves her sex because, not in spite of itself. ∙Paul Gray
...caribou, bear, beaver and small game which they hunted in winter. And when the river thawed in late May, they would fish for trout and salmon in its swollen waters. Today they keep themselves alive on beer, potatoes, bread and candy bars bought with bi-monthly welfare checks. In spite of a special concession from the Canadian government for unlimited hunting and fishing rights, fish have been scare this year on account of the protracted cold, and it's a lot easier to ride a Skidoo across the frozen river in mid-January to buy canned Irish stew than...