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Word: somehow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first error is contained in Wilson's reference to the Sociobiology Study Group as the "Lewontin group." Despite several attempts on our part to correct him, Prof. Wilson persists in the obsession that I somehow lead, dominate, or otherwise manipulate the Study Group. This myth arises out of the general error that characterizes Wilson's entire work of "sociobiology": the belief that he can universalize over all humanity his personal experience of the narrow social interactions of which he is part. While the groups to which E.O. Wilson belongs may indeed be hierarchically organized and may be dominated by persons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEAT ON WILSON | 2/3/1976 | See Source »

...classic in the genre of political filmaking. Its importance is explicit, topical; its purpose to instruct, inform, and hopefully, to change. In Z the ugly, brutal face of fascism is an easy target for the audience's hatred. Unfortunately, Costa-Gavras' latest film seems to have political intentions and somehow means to help us form a social opinion. Ultimately it does neither. Its topic of justice and collaboration in the Vichy regime is 35 years removed and hardly a live issue, doubly so because Vichy has no logical counterpart in our time. So we are left with a study...

Author: By Lorenzo Mariani, | Title: Stale Vichy Water | 2/3/1976 | See Source »

...admits that he might as well have made the remark. His loyalty to Nixon was total. Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman once warned him: "Richard Nixon will use anybody. Remember that. When he doesn't need you, he'll discard you." But Colson thought he was somehow exempt from this treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEMOIRS: Humbled Hatchet Man | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...night before the Math 1a exam for a freshman who's living in the Yard and scared. He's sitting in his room, which is neat but somehow oppressive as well, and talking about...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

...really does meet at that hour. Yeah, we have to give you a Bio exam at that time, so a proctor will pick you up and escort you there..." He keeps at his fingers a "special case book," a bluebook filled with the names of students who have somehow gotten out of the strict and orderly progression of exam period...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

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