Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy story to read, this tale of depersonalized murder. It is made somewhat more hopeful only by the inclusion of another, related story--that of Donald Woods's own transformation. Woods describes in detail his own responses to the South African situation. Born in the Transkei--not far, incidentally, from where Stephen Biko would grow up several years later--Woods did not begin to question his superiority to the blacks around him until he went to college, where he was introduced to the concepts of Western liberalism and humanism. He was persuaded to question the apartheid system with which...
...description of the Vietnam conflict that the reader is most cheated. Not because Nixon misses any details, or fails to deem it important and emotional. Nixon even provides an anecdote on Kent State that succeeds in making even the great villain of those days somewhat human, stating his sympathy for the parents and students who died "protesting a decision they felt was wrong...
...seems that Harvard is acting somewhat like one of the many New York City vandals, who when arrested after last summer's blackout said, "I didn't really steal that much, so why are you bothering me?! Besides, if I hadn't taken it, the next person would have. And it isn't as though I broke windows or doors myself, I just picked up the stuff that was lying on the ground already...
...were describing him in a nutshell," she says, "I would say that he is very sensitive−and totally insensitive. He says things sometimes that are really extraordinarily touching. But you could not describe him as a highly sensitive, emotional man. He stays very remote." She adds, somewhat enigmatically, that Paul is "a Jekyll and Hyde...
...board, recommended disapproval of Roberts' application. But after an intensive nationwide letter-writing campaign by the evangelist's supporters and lobbying by political friends, the state's health planning commission last week gave Roberts a go-ahead to begin building. Still, God's plans were somewhat modified: 294 beds at first, with later expansion...