Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Generally speaking, this company is not quite up to the task. The pace is slow, the timing sporadic, and the movement stiff. Nevertheless, the natural humor and inventiveness of two of the performers provide some highly amusing moments...
...audience, unless it comes prepared with texts, is likely to miss much; the listener is denied the luxury of pasuing at an evocative metaphor, and if he stops to puzzle over a line, he is likely to be left behind. Nevertheless, readings remain a rather popular local form of entertainment, and two Pulitzer Prize winners, Stanley Kunitz and Richard Wilbur, attracted a good hot-night crowd to New-Lowell Lec last week...
...screenplay. The discussions are conducted with verbal propriety and legal objectivity, and every one of them is necessary to the development of the theme. But it is possible to object to the theme itself, and to suspect that the moviemakers picked it principally because it offered opportunities for sensationalism. Nevertheless, the film displays an attitude toward sex that is more wholesome than the merely sniggering spirit that prevails in many a movie; and for those who can stand the straight talk, it provides a memorable exhibition of legal bicker and dicker, infight and outrage...
...offered him his most memorable role: Surgeon Lieut. Joseph Cyr of the Royal Canadian Navy. Demara's medical training consisted of a basic course in the U.S. Navy's hospital school, ten months as a hospital orderly in Boston, amplified by voracious reading of medical texts. Nevertheless, when assigned to Korean waters aboard the destroyer Cayuga, he performed such prodigies of battle surgery -an emergency amputation, the extraction of a bullet from the heart sac itself -that Cyr's story was published in Canadian newspapers. The real Dr. Cyr heard about...
...California's San Jose State, might have had a world mark to himself. He was so far ahead in a preliminary heat in the Fresno relays last month that he eased up and looked back over his shoulder to see what had happened to his competitors. Nevertheless, Norton ran the heat in 9.3. Said Head Timekeeper Snort Winstead: "I think he would have run 9.1 if he hadn't turned his head." Last month at Fresno the lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 Ibs.) Norton caught the fast-finishing Morrow in the last few strides...