Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only defense was that we were and we are victims of alienation, that feeling of emotional distance from a world in which we must constantly face something ugly in everything positive, something disappointing in everything successful. A typical reaction to alienating situations is to somehow redefine the situation as not contradictory. The simplest way to do that is to eliminate the upsetting scenes from one's life. We learn to look at life single-mindedly and edit out the bad footage in our vision and perceptions. We learn not to see certain contradictions. For instance, we learn...
...excluded from anything," Johnston says. No one can remember any tradition of feminism that might have been associated with a women's college, or any trace of solidarity as women in a male atmosphere. "There was no sense of being interested in the rights of women or of being somehow deprived." Hess, now a coordinator of the National Organization of Women,4CrimsonPaul E. Donahue...
...those oarsmen who do succumb to the alluring film, Red Top quickly emerges as a highlight of the rowing experience. The 16-mile trek out to the lighthouse and back, a typical early-morning fare in the workout menu, is somehow slightly sweetened by the thoughts of an afternoon round of croquet, lawn bowling or broth following the early evening row. Red Top puts back the old-styled gentlemanliness into rowing...
...like a salmon might take a small waterfall and told our drivers to pull over. We all got our I.D.s checked and then we were told the tailgate had to be closed, so California went by in blackness. We made up for it with a couple of joints. Somehow the laws of thermodynamics didn't apply to this weed because our drivers got wind of it and they pulled over to ask for some up front...
...line to Niles, coursing through the backroads of Southwestern Michigan. I was home that afternoon and the river still swirled brown there, down the hill. It was a good feeling to know it was there when I slept, now 90 hours out of San Francisco but somehow a long way from home...