Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mildly erotic. Westerners will detect elements of The Perils of Pauline and The Story of O. The 3,525-line poem recounts 15 hellish years in the life of a young girl, Vuong Thuy Kieu. She is beautiful, talented, virtuous-and just headstrong enough to make her interesting in spite of her other sterling qualities. To help pay her family's debts, Kieu sells herself into concubinage and is tricked into becoming a common whore in the house of a ruthless madam. Thereafter Kieu is ravaged, reviled and degraded by a host of villainous men and women. At last...
...society. "Skinner," he writes, "recommends the hell of the isolated, manipulated man of the cybernetic age as the heaven of progress." According to Fromm, reinforcing peaceful behavior is not enough unless the reinforcers take into account Freud's discovery that the forces driving man are often unconscious. In spite of the emphasis he puts on man's passions and unconscious drives, Fromm believes that the most important determinant of a man's character is society. Echoing arguments he has sprinkled throughout a score of earlier books, Fromm cites Mesopotamia's urban revolution in the third millennium...
...spite of the distinctions Fromm tries to make between his approach and Skinner's, he falls victim to his own criticisms of the behaviorists. As with Skinner, his recommendations that society change its "system of production, ownership and consumption" depend on faith in man's manipulability and desire to change...
There are fewer Christmas lights lining the streets of Cambridge, Boston, and neighboring communities this year, but they have not been eliminated, in spite of President Nixon's request that such lighting be ended...
Harvard lost a key match at 158 lbs. Jim Gebhard, who injured his left arm in practice last week, had to wear a brace. He was thus weakened and limited in mobility. In spite of the brace and injury, he wrestled a strong match, but dropped the contest...