Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...longer inexpensive. However, particularly in London and in England, I can understand the desire of those who are middle-aged (as I am) to live at what we term a more civilized pace. It is not so competitive. There is time for living. In spite of rising costs, the theater, concerts, etc., remain within sensible bounds. There is, I believe, another reason: the escape from the impersonality of concrete to something of another age. At heart, there are many squares left in this world who love the old things the cities here have to offer...
...network of communes available to them. Benjamin Zablocki. a Berkeley sociologist who has visited more than 100 communes in the past six years, insists: "The children are incredibly fine. It's natural for children to be raised in extended families, where there are many adults." Yet in spite of the talk of extended families, the extension in the new communes does not reach to a third generation. Indeed, the "families" have a narrow age span, and it is possible that the children have never seen an adult over...
...fact remains that they are not products of the area they serve. They have been imported with their carpetbags, and in spite of claims that the CDA Board members are the guiding force, it is the top staff personnel who run the show...
Unless the problem can be dealt with otherwise, "we must soon arrive at a policy of keeping buildings open in spite of bomb threats," said Gross...
...Sesame Street [Nov. 23] is a spectacular spectrum of meaningful motivation. Where else can you sing along with Pete Seeger, find a goodly measure of mirth with the Muppets, and learn in spite of oneself? Thus the so-called low achievers are mentally massaged by the TV medium-so much so that an impossible attention span of an hour is commandeered. Learning can and should take place beyond the big red schoolhouse. With the advent of today's technological instruction techniques, perhaps a portion of learning can take place in the home again. For learning is not limited...