Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neruda's Memoirs are both moving and somehow unfulfilling. They are filled with philosophy and hope, much as is his poetry; and entangle the reader into an emotionally exhausting extent in the triumphs and tragedies of history. But the function of memoirs is to make a person more accessible, Neruda's don't bring us much closer to the poet than his verses already did. In a sense, the Memoirs are the prose form of his poetry--both are filled with nature, indignation and politics. And to a reader of Neruda's poetry, his Memoirs will contain little that...
...Memoirs do give us wonderful sketches of Neruda's friends and contemporaries--Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Eduardo Frei, Soong Ch'ing Ling, the wife of Sun Yat-sen, and Cesar Vallejo among others--but they somehow leave us without the personal detail of Neruda himself. The Memoirs, for instance, barely mention Neruda's first wife or marriage, an 18-year venture--and have no more than one or two dozen specific time references...
...years ago, when Federal Judge Arthur Garrity paired Boston high schools with local colleges in the hope that shared experiences would improve educational quality, he paired Harvard with Roxbury. Joyce Grant, director of the Roxbury/Harvard Project, which coordinates the pairing, remembers the raised hopes. "People thought Harvard could somehow swoop in and take care of business," she said last week. Charles Ray, Roxbury High headmaster, said people thought Harvard had unlimited funds, and forgot Harvard has a budget, too. After three semesters of operation, a program has emerged that Grant and Ray think is in line with realistic expectations...
...somehow Mr. Carter has instilled a new feeling in me-a curiosity to know what's happening to my country, a true feeling of involvement and a feeling of trust in the one who will be heading our country...
...tickets. Some 300,000 "general invitations" on soft eggshell paper and colorful 16-page guides to the festivities were dispatched from computerized lists. They were meant mainly as souvenirs and included a warning in small type that they were good only for viewing the oath-taking and parade. Somehow one went to an inmate at a Texas state penitentiary, another went to a child who, having been elected president of her grade-school class, had written Carter on how to win the presidency...