Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...pretty dismal picture for those with maternal (or paternal) instincts. Throughout the book. Greer cites numerous anthropological, sociological, and psychological studies: her claims, if somewhat outrageous, are almost always based on well-documented research. But in a section on the importance of fertility, Greer's biases begin to manifest themselves in her less-than-objective tone. Her well-supported argument occasionally loses ground in spurts of emotionalism and-over-statement...
...justice and caring orientations manifest themselves at Emma Will are. One of the girls that she had placed in the "justice category" turned in two of her fellow students for cheating, while more of the "caring-oriented" girls than the "justice-oriented" ones handed in a survey that she had distributed...