Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that I own one, I doubt even non-skeptics will find the book particularly memorable either, in spite of some intelligent choices the editors made in doling out space for the more visible undergraduate groups. On the side of fair coverage, they didn't make the mistake of running eight pages of photos on the Polo Club (as last year's editors did), nor did they ignore those who are anxiously watching the disintegration of Radcliffe as a separate college and wondering whether Harvard is man enough to live humanely with women. And they did make the effort to include...
...Happiness is Allende making it again in spite of U.S. efforts...
Manckiewicz accused the national press of ignoring the corruption issue, in spite of McGovern's charges during the campaign, until the Watergate affair began to unravel. The press is unable to treat the incumbent like any other candidate during a Presidential campaign, Manckiewicz commented...
THERE IS a bare cohesiveness that sets Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me apart from Truffaut's other films, in spite of similarities, stylistic and otherwise, that draw it close. It is a film of individual brilliance in sequences, scenes, and even in single frames, as well as the director's nearly traditional ease and genius of characterization. In 1959, Truffaut was going to be a genius. He isn't, and it's because he hasn't tried. He simply doesn't want to tax himself, and he'd prefer not to tax us either. He could make forgettable movies...
Conductor John Posner puts a good deal of life into the later numbers. "Gee, Officer Krupke," which is also cleverly staged, could save the show by itself, even if West Side Story weren't a good enough show, in spite of everything, not to need saving...