Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SPITE OF the televised hoo-ra-rah of Nixon's trip to China last February, and all the instant books on "The New China" which have proliferated in the aftermath, the need for reporting in-depth persists. Most of the small number of reporters given the chance to enter the country with the Presidential mission were caught by the suddenness of the Chinese overtures of friendliness, went on little notice, and had little notion of the country's history and customs. Once there, they discovered that some expertise was needed in order to treat the big stories; nationalism, the people...
UNFORTUNATELY, the merits of this book only point to the need for further work out of China. For every question dealt with by Terrill, ten more come to mind. For instance, in spite of Terrill's attempts to communicate the spirit in which the Chinese embrace their slogans, it remains a puzzling phenomenon (for us.) Before we understand it, we shall have to know how the spirit of the rhetoric gets transmitted to the children. And for those Chinese whose revolutionary enthusiasm flags, we want to know the spirit in which criticism of them is given and accepted. Is this...
Shifts. Actually, in spite of the missing freshmen, the total enrollment figure is still growing, owing to the new popularity of two-year public colleges and graduate schools.* There is also a marked increase in the number of part-time students. While middle-class students are dropping out, or "stopping out," of college, blue-collar and minority students, who see education as their best means of access to the middle class, are taking their places. The number of Chicanes attending college increased by 19.1% last year, and blacks by 17.2% (although enrollment in black-studies courses fell by 8%). Women...
...Chicago-related school or movement have never stayed here long enough . . . to do so." But those who remained embraced their provincial situation with a kind of fierce pride in the city's hog-butcher materialism. Says Theodore Halkin: "I stay here because of the indifference, not in spite of it. I was never confused about my own idiosyncratic behavior. It's the only thing I've got, for God's sake. Why should I lose it in the turmoil of acceptance in New York...
...spite of all this, the prize for hypocrisy in the Gulf affair probably goes to the Harvard administration. A memo by presidential assistant Steve Father published in the March 10 Gazette and supposedly representing his advice to Bok on the subject, was obviously prepared for public consumption. Its consideration of the pros and cons of divestiture, while highly informative concerning Gulf and Angola, bore no relationship to what were obviously the administration's main concerns--not just such cynical but nevertheless real questions as "Will this get those students off our backs?" but even others, more appropriate for official published...