Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says Soloveitchik. "Ethics pays attenion to detail. Some people call us pe dantic; perhaps we are. But if you pay attention to detail you cannot be misled." Soloveitchik acknowledges that Orthodox belief is not always easy to understand: "We don't believe because it is absurd, but sometimes in spite of the fact it is absurd...
Moreover, in spite of any general trend toward a broadening audience for Kubrick or Vonnegut, Fantasy and Science Fiction is permeated by a sense of its special readership. The editorial tone seems directed toward a circle as avid as the readers of pulp mystery magazines and as semi-expert as the clientele of Popular Mechanics. A typical introduction to one of the stories might read: "Now here's a story by an old friend of F& SF readers, one of the best young writers in the field. We think it's a story you're really going to like...
...kind between this diary and the average summer-in-the-South reminiscence; there's more at stake here than the enlightening experience of universal brotherhood. Golden puts his radical convictions on the line, and there's no inherent certainty that they'll come through the experience confirmed. Yet in spite of the seriousness of the test Golden's journal is not a political autobiography. Jeff records the events of his summer with the passion of new experience and with an ever-present sense of irony and humor; his judgement is true, his prose is sure, and what...
Those of us who care about our language, in spite of all the abuse that is heaped upon it, those of us who care about poetry cannot but deplore this new violation of our craft...
...this my first letter to the Crimson, let me again congratulate you in spite of obvious shortcomings. Ewart Guinier Professor and Chairman Afro-American Department