Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might have been my imagination, but I couldn't help feel that McCarthy was somehow disgusted; more like disillusioned--and frustrated. Harvard had changed a hell of a lot since the sixties...
...already a big draw. It may also trouble some older admirers. Ever since his Asian Figures (1973), a collection of sayings from the Korean, Philippine, Chinese and Japanese, Merwin's imagination has been racing eastward. The effect on his poetry is often a studied inscrutability-purposeful but somehow aimless journeys through a landscape of clouds and mountains. Some of his poems seem like private mantras: "Dark rain at/ winter solstice/ and in the morning/ rosemary under clear sky/ bird on south doorstep/ poised like a stone...
Boas described the representatives, who later visited him at his request, as "mysterious." She gave the impression she was "somehow connected with Harvard," Boas said...
...entered Harvard in September of 1973, the same month that Prof. Kilson launched a slanderous attack against the Afro-American student organization at Harvard for failing to recognize what he called the values of "assimilation," and implying that those students with social awareness are somehow opposed to "academic excellence...
...come on a three day week-end retreat. I went that week-end, but I could not stay for the whole time. By the following week, I had pretty much decided not to go again, so I went to find my friend in the group to tell her. Somehow, the longer I was with her, the less I could say no to her. She said that since I had missed part of the last retreat, I should go again. That evening I found myself in a van headed to Marblehead. I stayed there for a few days...