Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that I am even the small part of it that I am. I have seen my city, the fifth largest in the U.S., reduced by one-sixth its original size. Not by a tornado or flood, or any other act of nature or God, but because of people who somehow seemed to lose every bit of their sanity and proceeded to loot, burn and murder innocent citizens. Why? I don't know, maybe someone does, but all we who do not know see is smoldering rubble, homeless people, and the corpses of those who were the sniper...
...somehow get the rioting black-power radicals and the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klansmen into the same arena. They're so deserving of each other's throats...
...mere mention of a motel in the same breath as an Adams photograph is grotestque; after all, he is the official photo-muralist of the Department of the Interior. But the comment illustrates a fundamental need of the viewer; a photograph must be somehow associable with him. Because he lacks or rejects the use of human scale, Adams' photographs are most effective on three-and four-foot panels. Everything is larger than life; he chooses subjects before which a human being stands tiny and speechless...
Every pianist, violinist and 'cellist with a yen for chamber music has at one time or another chugged through the Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat. It's hazards of technique and intonation are notorious, but somehow the beauty of the work transcends the most adverse of circumstances and comes through in spite of wrong notes, shaky ensemble, and sick intervals...
Danone was the first yogurt maker to introduce flavors, now has 25 varieties ranging from coffee to cassis. The flavored varieties are a favorite with children and with busy housewives hurrying through lunch. Even recalcitrant husbands are catching on. "They used to think that eating yogurt was somehow humiliating," says a Danone executive. "Now they are eating more and more. By having plain yogurt and not the flavored kind, they maintain their dignity...