Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PARTICULARLY interesting facet of the Jonestown affair is that it involved many of the vague, somehow threatening phenomena and mindsets that characterize fringe groups in America today. The very embodiment of this, of course, was the Rev. Jim Jones, a peculiarly American product. So many details of his bizarre life have emerged in the past week that most people are probably tired of him already, but for others the fascination, albeit morbid, remains. Here was a man who managed to combine and warp good impulses by way of a twisted psyche...
Jones followed in the dubious tradition of megalomaniacal American religious leaders. The obvious parallel lies between Jones and his self-declared idol, Father Divine. Sun Myung Moon also comes to mind; but somehow the connection to more mainstream evangelists--the Billy Grahams and Oral Roberts of the world--does not seem so far off. We recoil from the terrible spectacle of California cults gone berserk, but manage to forget their antecedents, presumably because the more conventional, if hardly more genuine, religious-business organizations don't break the laws of propriety in such flamboyant ways...
...dead reporter interviewing and filming scores of people just a few hours before the deal went down for all of them. Never before have we been able to witness a lurid event in such detail. While the coverage has been good from an informational standpoint, it is somehow uncomfortable...as if it were an invasion of the dead's privacy...and unquestionably in poor taste. If you doubt that, take a quick look at the way Newsweek and Time featured bloated corpses and screaming headlines on their covers this week, or think about The Boston Globe's characteristically sensitive headlines...
Stoyanovich, who had menaced freshman goaltender Wade Lau all night with blistering shots that somehow stayed out of the net, took a pass at the left point from defenseman Don Boyd, teed up, and fired home a low, vicious slapper that negated a furious third-period Harvard rally and sent a partisan capacity crowd of 4500 at Houston Field House into hysterics...
...want these wonderful things the government provides, but we think they should be provided somehow other than through a monopoly government," Lee Nason, a member of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party (MLP), says. For example, Nason believes that government welfare programs should be replaced by a system of private charity. "I think most people want to help the poor. Welfare laws exist because people voted them in. But that method doesn't work. The truly needy are not getting welfare and citizens are getting frustrated and not contributing to charity anymore. The bureaucracy can't handle people as individual cases...