Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gnosticism, in its various forms (including Manichaeism) was one of the chief heresies fought by the early Christian church. Basic to all Gnostic sects was the belief that the world was evil, created by a bad god for the express purpose of imprisoning the divine spark which had somehow become vulnerable. Human beings who harbored some of this spark had secret knowledge (gnosis) and could be saved from the world trap by an emissary of the Divine whose mission was to gather up the scattered sparks and smuggle them out of the created universe to Paradise...
...three colleges, of the student's choice, which can do what they will with it. But it may at last replace the usual pat "biography" required by colleges, and students will get no help from papa. More important, it may help U.S. schools to find time somehow for putting meaning into words-with clarity, order, thought, vigor...
...confesses, in a long, anguished monologue, the most tormenting of his guilty secrets. This scene and the one that follows and resolves it are the best parts of the evening; once Jim Tyrone begins to open his heart, A Moon for the Misbegotten becomes and stays interesting. But somehow it never becomes as powerful or haunting as might be expected from the combination of this author and these themes. The old O'Neill faults, on the other hand, are much in evidence: the play is rambling, uneven, unfocussed, and couched largely in outdated slang...
...diversified backgrounds of its members somehow seem to pull the squad into a close-knit unit that has allowed only two goals in five games, while scoring 11 itself. But today's contest poses an exceptionally difficult challenge, as the team feels obliged to better Yale's score over Andover...
...disturbing to realize, during scenes like this, that the supposedly sensitive and intelligent men who make films such as The Last Angry Man feel that they must somehow explain to the audience every literate speech or subtle technical effect they use. And when it turns what might have been a thoroughly commendable effort into a slightly better than run-of-the-mill film, this kind of condescension is disastrous...