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...example might be useful. In quantum electrodynamics there exists a theory of how electrons become manifest from an absolute field called the "quantum vacuum state." This state is unmanifest, that is, can only be inferred from indirect evidence. Yet the theory is perhaps the most successful in all of science, as measured by the numerical accuracy of its predictions...
...magnetic pivot of the evening is Ann Reinking. She is the incarnation of what used to be called the long-stemmed American beauty. Dance seems to be not only her language but also her manifest and incandescent destiny. Ann Reinking isterpsiglorious...
...seems unfair to judge socialism by the standards developed by capitalism to evaluate itself. Marx and Engels saw socialism as an outgrowth of capitalism. Initially, therefore, socialism cannot but manifest many of the characteristics, however undesirable, of the structures that gave it birth. It also seems unfair to judge the achievements of socialism so soon. It was to be only after several generations, the founders thought, that socialism would come into...
...sustaining forces of the Depression years. It was the teen-agers of the '30s who forged, fought and won the U.S. victory of World War II. For the flabby, self-centered, alienated lot that Mamet has assembled in his radio studio, that formidable deed would have been a manifest impossibility. - T.E.K...
...Each year at this date a snow sculpture of Gibbs's head appears by immaculate precipitation behind the Busch-Reisinger Museum and in front of the Gibbsian temple, a monumental temple on the Harvard campus disguised as a laboratory. On normal work days the group uses this "lab" to manifest their belief in X-ray diffraction as the key to solving the world's great problems. But on Gibbs Day, the X-rays are extinguished; the day's only pseudoscientific activities are the barometer and thermometer readings that precede the 15.6 seconds of silence that commemorate the anniversary...