Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue is not whether Kiely's personal judgment was, in retrospect, wrong. What's wrong is that Kiely could provide a job for someone on the basis of only his personal judgement and no one else's, in spite of the fact that his judgment may have been colored by his friendship for the individual involved...
...Still, he hesitated, reluctant to subject himself to pressures for a commitment, unwilling to join any assembly-line for ministers. Fortunately, one professor had an alternative: "Don't worry about that. I think you ought to go to Harvard Divinity School," he suggested. "There you are religious in spite of the place, not because of it." Lured by the additional incentives of Widener Library and a generous scholarship, Gomes applied and ventured into what others warned him was a spiritual desert...
...spite of these weaknesses the concert was an immense success. As long as the Bach Society continues to feature soloists like the ones Saturday evening, Sanders will be sold out, and the Bach Society concerts will be enjoyable and worthwhile...
Matthews's subject is as problematical as it is challenging, as impossible as it could be rewarding. Overwhelmed by the problems and impossibilities, Matthews responds fully neither to the challenge nor to the rewards. But in spite of his he has a subject which in itself redeems the book from its author's shortcomings. Eliot is Matthews's greatest asset...
...intact. In those days, however, an important condition was fulfilled: that authoritarian order possessed a strong moral foundation. Although it was embryonic and rudimentary, it reposed, not on the ideology of universal violence, but on Christian Orthodoxy... Once this moral principle was perverted and weakened, the authoritarian order, in spite of the external successes of the state, gradually went into a decline and perished...