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Left alone with the real Baron, Maria commends his manifest education. "I go to movies twice a week," the Baron responds. How to resist a gentleman's advances without offending, Maria asks the real Baron, presumably her equal. Responds Baron Manners: "Say, 'Not so impetuous, Baron. Not before supper, later.'" Left equally confused by the presents of the class which he has so suddenly affected, Gaston asks for romantic counsel as well. Once again, Baron Manners: "Tell her, 'You are the one to whom I belong body and soul,' and remember 'After supper, it is easier to discuss with...
...might well do more than divestment to further the struggle against the Nationalist regime. And yet, despite our revulsion toward apatheid, the fact remains that Harvard's resources were entrusted to us for academic purposes and not as a means of demonstrating our opposition to apartheid or to other manifest injustices and evils around the world. This is one reason why we have supported the expenditure of University funds to educate nonwhites from South Africa at Harvard but have opposed a policy of divestment...
...scoundrel." At about the same time, Dr. Pangloss was giving optimism a bad name too. "In this best of all possible worlds," said the Voltaire character, "all is for the best." But those impulses, patriotism and optimism, are prominent and connected in the American psyche. The idea of manifest destiny carried both to a bellicose extreme; Franklin Roosevelt, when he insisted that the nation had nothing to fear but fear itself, expressed the linkage beautifully. Patriotic trappings took on particular importance in a vast, heterogeneous nation with hardly any history to bind its citizens, and the pioneeer spirit is necessarily...
...justice and caring orientations manifest themselves at Emma Willard. One of the girls that she had placed in the "justice" category turned in two of her fellow classmates for cheating, while more of the "caring-oriented" girls than the "justice oriented" ones handed in a survey that Gilligan had distributed...
...disappointments of the novel stem from the fact that although Updike divides his characters quite clearly into two camps, he does not allow their fates to follow from their differences in character. The reader feels the tension between Updike's near-absolute confidence of judgment, made manifest in sharp epigrams and character assessment, and the lax, amorphous nature of his characters' daily lives. One longs atavistically for a dramatic event to produce and ultimately resolve the conflict...