Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understands the realities of Eastern Europe, and he apparently meant to say, as he did several sentences later, that the U.S. "does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union." Ford even had studied lines to this effect in the briefing book. But somehow he truncated and garbled the lines, carried away by rhetoric. Then, instead of retracting his misstatement-and only running the risk of appearing tongue-tied-he bullheadedly stuck to what he had said...
...foreign policy, the list includes former U. N. ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, and presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy, architect of the U. S. strategy in Vietnam. Similar connections exist in domestic social and economic policy. As Secretary of Labor, John Dunlop designed and administered a wage-price freeze that somehow was a lot better at holding down wages than prices, and Moynihan was one of Nixon's main advisors on domestic affairs...
...Voyant, a romanticized but keenly intelligent biography of Celine, cast in elegantly spacy prose. In it, she lets fall the word divertissement with McCarthy's meaning but without Pascal's support. Elsewhere she undermines Celine's pretence that he resented public interviews and solicitation of his advice by jibing, "Somehow, he protested too much." When relating how Celine insisted that he did not believe in love, the Frenchman's latest biographer sounds a rather pompous echo: "One thinks that the gentleman doth protest too much...
Reproduction, when it comes to art, is somehow considered uncreative by the Western world. If American galleries exhibit that third remove from reality which a copy of a painting of an object represents, it's only because they can't get "the real thing"--by which they mean the painting, not the object. And the reproductions will almost always be photographs; we have assumed that the camera gets closer to what it renders, somehow, than the brush does. Artistes, not artists, copy; second rate art students who don't dare make, imitate...
...weak never startle with a momentary show of strength. The wicked never betray a flash of compassion. The heroes never convincingly falter in their convictions. They are simply not alive, and it is hard to care much what happens to them. Even the cleverly chosen New York locations somehow seem contrived. There is, in the end, something held back about The Front, some strange refusal to really dig into and turn over very rich historical and psychological soil. The result is a film unworthy of its excellent intentions...