Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University may have a point. There is little doubt that scattershot unionization has problems may in fact have seemed so great to Columbia that university officials felt somehow put upon to influence the balloting in the NLRB-authorized election against District 65 a few weeks ago. That election is currently being contested. Partial unionization is attendant with innumerable problems which are all-too common in other sectors of the economy; perhaps most fearsome among them is that of leapfrogging wage settlements. If employees in similar job classifications are paid different wages simply because they are represented by different unions, then...
...Philip LaZebnik's latest offering. American in Purgatory is basically warmed over Mintz; shorter and more tightly-knit than its predecessor, it features many of the same actors bandying about similar jokes and singing similar songs within the now almost predictable absurdist framework that has become a LaZebnik trademark. Somehow it all seemed a lot fresher the first time around...
...writer's activity is rather curiously private and finicking, a matter of exorcism and manufacture rather than a toplofty proclamation; that what he makes is ideally as ambiguous and opaque as life itself; that, to be blunt, the social usefulness of writing matters to him primarily in that it somehow creates a few job opportunities...
...committee member emphasizes the main thrust will probably be toward changing attitudes among Faculty members that tend to de-emphasize teaching. Whether through money incentives or mandatory classes, the member said, somehow professors must "be taught" the importance of teaching...
...face of such inescapable realities, the U.S. turns the other way, thinking that dogmatism and intransigence can somehow dissipate the spectre. Secretary of State Kissinger has continually repeated that Communist participation in the government will be "unacceptable." What Kissinger probably hopes for is the "portugalization" of Italy, the substitution of social democracy for communism. But the Italian Socialists have much less support than the PC. Ironically, though, the policies of the PC are very similar to those of most Western European socialist parties, whose participation in power the U.S. tolerates. In fact, much of the tension between...