Word: manifestants
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...point to easily, but will instead be something we feel. Of course, "feelings" are not very convincing to us materialistic young men and women. That's why we should be forced to do it. Eventually, the civic-mindedness and open-mindedness that arise from a universal national service will manifest themselves, and those who come after us won't think they're being forced at all. It will be self-reinforcing, and eventually seem almost natural...
Prophetic literature is intrinsically political, since it is either a reaction against or an extension of known conditions of life. And Le Guin, who has moved gradually from straight science fiction toward visionary narrative, makes no secret of her polemical intentions. The Condor people manifest all the darker impulses of contemporary superpower states. The Kesh are what humans could become if they would stop trying to impose their wills and designs on the earth. The enormous swatches of pseudoanthropological material in Always Coming Home amount to a blueprint for an allegedly better world...
...Conservative Club leadership to the Nazis particularly ludicrous and inappropriate. His suggestion, even though it be partially in jest, that the Conservative Club be quarantined reveals Stevens's chilling lack of tolerance for others' opinions. Stevens compares the Conservative leadership to Nazis, but it is he who through his manifest lack of respect for dialogue, represents the greater threat to democracy and free speech at Harvard. Thomas M. Clark '85 Vincent T. Chang...
...enough booty aboard to justify the expense of even a modest salvage operation. Walter Lord, author of A Night to Remember, pored over the old damage claims and found that the Titanic's cargo was insured for an unimpressive $420,000. According to the ship's manifest, among the significant items on board were some 500 cases of shelled walnuts, 860 rolls of linoleum and eight cases of orchids...
...humongous, gleaming, wide-shouldered white suit, did a fancy two-step with a floor lamp, and the band played all its best-known tunes. Byrne may have looked, at first, like Anthony Perkins getting ready to swab the bathroom floor at the Bates Motel, but his brilliant performance made manifest all the deadpan comedy and everyday eeriness of the music. At last, everything was clear. Besides, the lead singer ended up being as endearing as the Qantas koala...