Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gould's performances, writes Friedrich, had "a strange power unlike anything in the work of any other pianist . . . a power that made many people feel that their lives had somehow been changed, deepened, enriched." Still, Friedrich respects Gould's talents too much to canonize, or psychoanalyze, him. Instead, he sends the reader back to the recordings. And there, as one listens, one senses that in some deep but precise sense, Gould and his piano were truly one. For the man himself was a highly sensitive instrument, tuned to a fine pitch, capable of many moods, and played upon at times...
Self-condemned to spend his days among libidinous soldiers, listening to their "cat-calling carnality," Lawrence came to believe that sexual desire was somehow blameworthy: "Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch...
...same time, Suwelo's wife, Fanny Nzingha, daughter of Olivia from The Color Purple, goes to Africa to learn about her own roots. She finds her father, a dissident playwright who somehow manages to keep his job as Minister of Culture of a fictional African republic while he is regularly thrown into jail for writing scathing plays...
...suggestion that Harvard would somehow lose its academic integrity and have to "forfeit control of what is taught in the classroom" by letting ROTC return to campus makes no sense. First of all, several prominent Ivy League institutions--such as Dartmouth, Princeton, and Pennsylvania--now have ROTC on campus, and few would claim that these schools have somehow become "militarized" and lost their academic credibility. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would never let ROTC "control an academic department." If the Pentagon insists on making such demands, the faculty will simply vote to keep it off campus...
Despite their odd quirks and diverse backgrounds, a bond develops between the teammates, and somehow they find themselves winning--a situation that the swanky owner will not tolerate...