Word: manifest
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...much to revise in the story of the European conquest of North and South America that historians inherited? Its basic scheme was imperial: the epic advance of civilization against barbarism; the conquistador bringing the cross and the sword; the red man shrinking back before the cavalry and the railroad. Manifest Destiny. The notion that all historians propagated this triumphalist myth uncritically is quite false; you have only to read Parkman or Prescott to realize that. But after it left the histories and sank deep into popular culture, it became a potent myth of justification for plunder, murder and enslavement...
...seems to have taken a more sinister turn. Thanks in no small part to the remarkable log-rolling exhibition that the 102nd Congress staged during 1991, many Americans have gone from merely harboring negative thoughts to a profound sense of contempt for the legislative body. The dangers are manifest. Voters are staying home in droves at election time, which only enhances the formidable benefits of incumbency, and they are increasingly likely to embrace quick-fix "reforms," like term limitations, whose eventual effects can only be guessed at. It is one thing for citizens to indulge themselves in democratic uppityness...
America is so much more diverse and so much more contentious. Americans may be about to discover just how much of our ability to get along with one another has depended on that spiritual sense of American manifest destiny -- and, more practically, on a steady rise in the average person's prosperity. For almost two decades now this rise, which Americans take as their birthright, has stalled or at least slowed dramatically. David Duke is a political expression of that reality...
...wish Dershowitz would understand that the Jewish culture has always overemphasized intellectual prominence and strength as a source of self-worth. That's why people raised in that ethos are more susceptible to finding that they have to chronically manifest greater and greater levels of competency to feel psychologically secure. When the mere acquisition of money loses its significance, beating the system can become a convenient mechanism for recapturing one's self-esteem. Actually, if Dershowitz understood how truly desperate these men were to validate their sense of self-worth, he might use the success syndrome as a defense...
...Quincy House sophomore and self-admitted Anal Retentive Person (ARP) Manuel S. Varela '94, neatness and order manifest themselves in laying out the next day's clothes the night before, in order of what goes on first--shoes and socks last, of course...