Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood at 76.5 million tons, three times the figure for all of 1958. And just to show that nothing is too small to be transformed by the Marxist miracle, Mao's drumbeaters reported that near Dairen in Manchuria there stands a marvelous tree laden with 12,175 apples-somehow counted though still unpicked...
...universal, born of an idea turned into phantasm. Its antic rules ("the management shall in no case be responsible for the loss of property or for the inmate himself"), the handless clock on which a watchman hourly paints in the hands, and, above all, the jailers' constant and somehow insane concern for the prisoner's welfare-all add up to a caricature of prisons everywhere. The fussy, pedantic, sentimental jailers are so many congealed crocodile tears; what a naughty boy the prisoner really is, they appear to be saying, not eating his splendid meals, and depressing them...
...Somehow, despite the dazzling dream dance of ironies, despite the poignant musings of the prisoner, the book is disappointing. Compared with the author's superior novels, it is only a kind of detour de force. It may be that, unlike Kafka, Nabokov sacrificed horror to hallucination -or that the young Nabokov did not really know what he was trying to say. Whether Cincinnatus was condemned by wicked masters, or whether he was self-condemned by his own conscience, the ending is both enigmatic and unsatisfactory; for, Nabokov appears to be saying, Cincinnatus can banish the carnival of evil around...
What is important is that students be consulted somehow and that this poll be framed in such a way as to provide the maximum variety of deconversion choices. While no one likes sleeping in double-decker bunks, there are merits to "converted" suites beyond the cheaper prices. "Crowding" makes roommates of three, four, and five possible in situations where only two or three students lived in lonely privacy during the thirties. If nothing else, Quincy House has shown that four-man living arrangements are comfortable, providing the individual can have privacy when he wants...
...extremists of both sides, therefore, have the military power in their hands, and, for now, any moderating influence in the crisis must come from them. Unless the extremists relent, or unless more reasonable forces can somehow wrest control from them, the bright promise of de Gaulle's peace plan will come to nothing. If France is to get Sahara oil, it must have a peaceful friendly Algeria; this is something it may never obtain...