Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration seems to be making a clear choice for its future development; the customary military, C.I.A., and government relations with the University are to remain intact, while students and their education can apparently be ignored with scarcely a twinge of guilt. In short, R.O.T.C. is felt to be somehow necessary, and the students can be dispensed with...
...Under the Volcano remains the only major testament to Lowry's right to a place among the finest writers of the century. Despite his remarkable talent at self-portrayals, Lowry's power derives almost solely from the infernal torture of one two-year period in his life which he somehow survived. In the end, his contribution may come down simply to the fact that, as Ken Kesey put it, "He's been to the edge and looked over...
...poems here a week and a half ago. There were about 150 people in Burr B when he arrived from dinner at the Signet. It may have been the incongruity of the room, the Delphic tiers of the lecture hall dwarfing the rough-hewn podium, or the poetry itself; somehow the evening was majestic and depressing, and reflective of what poetry has recently become: accomplished, public, ill-at-ease...
While there can be no doubt that blacks have been--and are--the most systematically and dramatically exploited racial or ethnic group in the nation, the fact remains that, in absolute numbers, there are more whites below the poverty line than blacks. (It is a fact that, somehow, seems lost on most of this academic community...
...Jones' real talent is for making the improbable seem necessary and the grotesque plausibly humdrum. Perhaps because Jones has caught lobsters, sold boats, worked on newspapers and taught school, his showy invasion of the private terrors that lurk just below the surface of apparently calm minds seems somehow fresh-and far removed from the structural, Stygian, self-conscious atrocities of the black comedians with whom he will inevitably be compared...