Word: manifestation
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...East Germany. Once the most obedient of peoples in the Soviet bloc, the East Germans have begun to manifest discontent with life in the most prosperous and at the same time one of the most oppressive countries in Communist Europe. Much to the dismay of Party Boss Erich Honecker, some 200,000 people have applied to live in West Germany. Although many of the applicants have lost their jobs and apartments, tradesmen, workers and professional people still persist in trying...
...general, the writers seek to preserve Freud's notions of penis envy and the castration complex, but argue that the effects are hardly as malign as Freud thought. Analysts William Grossman and Walter Stewart suggest that penis envy in adult women should be interpreted as the "manifest content" of a problem-in other words, it is merely a metaphor for whatever may be troubling a woman, and not a "bedrock" problem...
...cohorts, Fried smirkingly insinuates, and Benjamin ("Early to bed, early to rise") Franklin never rose until noon. More substantively, it's hard to detect any real difference between, for example, the imperialism for which Julian chides the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Stuart Rantoul Prescott's glorious paeans to "manifest destiny...
What Jimmy Carter will supply as an alternative, he says, is to help the United States to "be great again." The words are scary; they smack of the manifest destiny arrogance that led this country into the Philippines and, half a century later, into Vietnam. But Carter's call appears actually to be for a country that is great because is feeds and educates its poor, because its people are not divided into white and black, and because its power is used for selfless purposes abroad...
Tropical Madness. The tradition of Romantic landscape, with its vistas of beetling crags, waterfalls and floods of primordial light, rose from the vision of untouched America as a new Eden, the manifest handiwork of God. "Artists," a journalist noted in 1859, "are now scattered, like leaves or thistle blossoms, over the whole face of the country...