Word: albeit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bloomfield's task is to create a king of mirror effect through which, for example, the town-bred Gwendolen and countrified Cecily seem merely of vanity and triviality. These are not, after all, three-dimensional characters; they are instead cardboard figures, albeit unusually witty ones, whose motto is "I speak, therefore...
...score of 1,000 for hiring and promotion created a racist classification. While 90 per cent of the white graduates of Mississippi colleges scores 1,000 or higher, 89 per cent of the black graduates scored below. The court ruled that the racial classification that this created (albeit inadvertently) constituted discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment and that "there is no convincing evidence in the record showing any relationship between 1,000 on the NTE and effective classroom teaching...
...glib attempt to examine a fundamentally irreligious society through a religious haze. The lines that emerge as the play's philosophical premise--"So man created God. What for? To see limits on himself."--never become very meaningful or especially convincing. Nonetheless, on opening night one could extract a snippet, albeit strained, of still-valid revelation from the Ex's proficient production... When the cast shared apples from the Tree of Knowledge with the audience, somebody murmured amid the general crunching, "It's delicious...
...with ten minutes or so remaining in the game, the Cornell punter, unheroically entitled Dave Johnson, stood gasping for air inside his 15-yard line. Had the snap from center taken too long, Johnson might have sunk into the stadium and never resurfaced, but the football arrived on time, albeit a trifle high...
...last time Gato came to Boston, in the fall of 1975, he gave a series of tremendous, albeit short concerts, playing his usual hard-driving saxaphone. At that time, Gato hadn't cut a recent album so he just played some of the old, crowd-pleasing favorites...