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...this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States...
...mind, because with all that we know now about his flawed historical perspective, the rhythms of his spirit took the soldiers and the poets through the crises of a Civil War. I wish we had, too, some of the Whiggish optimism of Theodore Roosevelt. It may not be our manifest destiny to conquer Khe Sanh, but it ought to be ours to cultivate liberty and subdue the state...
...commencement ago the reinstatement of a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Program at Harvard seemed to be a distinct possibility. President Bok told alumni in a June 13th speech last year that he did not believe "our record and our conscience can be fully clear until we manifest our willingness to entertain an ROTC program on terms compatible with our usual standards...
...unpromisingly, as a tourists' excursion through a Disneyland museum of the American dream, then settles into Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. Ruby, in his sharkskin suit, hawks strippers and gimmicks like a twister's exercise board. He is pathologically eager to please and to succeed, to manifest the American dream...
AVERY'S SUBJECTS manifest this energy because he forms them with lines that breathe and kick and cry with the force of a newborn child. In his drypoint "Umbrella by the Sea" (1948), he expresses the size and movement of an ocean by the spacing and fluidity of the line alone. In the foreground he makes his lines wide and gently curving, like lapping waves, gradually becoming choppier as he moves out to sea. Then lines become crowded, quick slashes of his stylus. In the same way, in his three reclining nudes (1939, 1941 and 1948), the surety...