Word: although
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Although Princess Margaret and her husband, sometime Society Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, have seldom circulated in London's night life since their marriage, last week's Docklands Settlement Ball, a charity affair long one of Margaret's favorites, proved beyond resistance. Notified on very short notice that the Princess and her party of 20 would be there, the ball's tossers had little time to inform some 500 invited white-tie guests that Tony and his male companions would attend in dinner jackets and no decorations (of which Armstrong-Jones, as it happens, has none...
They are the dashing, derring-do boys of the National Football League, a tight little elite of halfbacks who survive by speed of foot and wit in a jungle of brute force. Although they may weigh 190 Ibs. or more, they are seldom risked in the crunch of line bucks against wrathful 260-lb. tackles. Instead, they whip downfield for passes, or take a pitchout in full stride to sweep around end. Given a yard or two of maneuvering room, they can break a game wide open by slithering, pirouetting, stutter-stepping and sprinting through a field of tacklers...
...Although in later installments (previewed last week for the press) the program fills the air with Messerschmitts and Supermarine Spitfires, shows Panzer tracks across the tulip beds of The Netherlands and bomb explosions muffled in the soft sands of Dunkirk, the series is much more than newsreel shots and selected quotes. Its staff of nearly 250 has also collected brief, extraordinary commentaries from the low and the mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing...
...midwinter European tour, Odetta now lives in Chicago, tries to keep nightclub dates to a minimum and sing as often as possible on college campuses, where she feels most at home. She learns most of her songs from records, and alters and polishes them to suit her needs. Although she once scorned the trappings of the folk singer, including the inevitable guitar, she has added a bass accompaniment to her performances. "It's like a magic carpet," says Odetta. "It puts all of the baby in the cradle...
...Although critics of "conformity" often include churches in their indictment the Catholic bishops blame the trend on the "marked decline in the force of religious convictions" in the U.S., combined with the rise of materialism and "situational ethics." Explained the bishops: "Through a faulty concept of morality, Modern Man has come to imagine that sudden and drastic changes in situations change principles; that principles no longer control situations, but rather that situations shape principles...