Word: manifestation
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Prodded by desperate Belgium, the High Authority last week proposed to the Community's Council of Ministers that "a state of manifest crisis" be declared, permitting imposition of mandatory quotas. But in the Council of Ministers, composed of cabinet ministers of all six nations, supranationalism meets nationalism. Despite Belgium's crisis, the ministers seemed in no hurry to act against their own national pressures...
...integration lay unsolved beneath the surface, but did not erupt into violence. A nation's youth went hula-hooping its uncomplicated way, and science, medicine and industry explored new breakthroughs. But the stones cast at Richard Nixon in Latin America and the Democratic sweep in the congressional elections made manifest a widespread discontent with U.S. policy, foreign and domestic...
...threat of force by having retaliatory power and the will to use it, so that the Communist use of force would obviously be unprofitable to them. I emphasize both the power and the will, for one without the other is useless. Also, that will must be sufficiently manifest that potential aggressors will calculate that they could not aggress without disaster to themselves...
Hartman's intelligence is manifest in the current production, but his consistency sometimes falters. Each of the several portrayals is excellent in its own right, but they do not always mesh as they might. Becklan Algren plays Gogo more or less naturalistically, with accent and gestures that would be equally appropriate to Waiting for Lefty. A recognizable human characterization lies behind his performance. Tony LoBianco's Vladimir seems, on the other hand, to have an abstraction behind it. The two men are professionals, and pursue their readings with great skill, but they do not always coordinate properly...
...stated comparison is that the individualistic and inquiring personality prevails in Cambridge whereas unity and democracy are manifest in New Haven. Former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson put it this way: "In the classrooms of Harvard there was a spirit of independent thinking unlike anything I had met before... The whole atmosphere was electric with the sparks of competitive argument. On the other hand, there was little of the corporate class spirit and democratic energy which was so visible on the Yale campus...