Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unlike the effect of the most terrifying sections of a horror movie. The pseudo-meaningful verses by that overrated American poet, Kenneth Patchen, do not help the listener in his attempt to grasp the unprofound programmatic idea that Mr. Cutler seems to have had in mind. Yet, in spite of this immature approach to the subject that Mr. Cutler chose to pursue, the last two sections show that he has a fine control of the resources of an orchestra. The orchestral song based on a death in wartime is stunning and gripping in its controlled hysteria. The H.R.O...
...spite of the adoption of input-output analysis by 35 interested foreign countries, the United States government has completely neglected the system in recent years. The last table devised for the U. S. economy was the 450-category chart made up in 1947. Interest at that time was occasioned by a wish to know the impact throughout the economy of an expansion of government spending on arms--the extent to which other types of production would have to contact, and the "bottle necks" that might arise...
...spite of a rather poor showing, inexperience was not the Engineers' problem. Fourth-ranked Tony Lake, in fact, played a man he has met five times before in official competition. Lake...
Among those scheduled for donations are President Pusey and several other prominent University officials. But in spite of the record number of faculty members who have registered to donate, precedent indicates that the faculty will still use more blood in the next year than they give this week...
...spite of a dangerous scarcity of epee men, the fencing team should do very well in Ivy League competition this year, Coach Edo Marion said last night. Marion is currently using a new training method which he hopes will ease the excessive tension some swordsmen feel during a match, as will as teaching them the "right psychological moment" to strike...