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Speaking to a group of about 450 people, Smith cited frustration caused by "negative or ineffectual government" as a source of "the manifest unhappiness of Americans with their lot over the last few years...
...Rhythmic vitality" comes close to its sense, for the Chinese considered a painting to manifest ch'i if the "spirit" of its subject was translated into the movements of the artist's hand and then to the ink marks. The idea is that of Confucius: "Only the truly intelligent understand the principle of identity. They do not view things as apprehended by themselves subjectively, but transfer themselves into the position of the things viewed...
...also a reminder of the Soviet Union's continuing betrayal of its own revolutionary tradition, a betrayal manifest both in internal repression and enforced domination of neighboring peoples. Soviet citizens still have no secure civil liberties, 40 years after the Soviet government adopted a new constitution that said they could be safely extended even to counter-revolutionary classes. Soviet "socialism"--the administration of industry by a small and often venal class of bureaucrats--is a hollow mockery of the Bolsheviks' dream of industry run for and by its workers. And Soviet foreign policy, far from the Bolshevik-professed support...
President Bok announces that after 32 months in office, he has finally determined that he is not Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology. "But I don't think my record and my conscience can be fully clear," Bok adds, "until I manifest my willingness to entertain George Wald's identity compatible with my usual personality...
...Boucher lived through the climax of the ancien régime and died less than two decades before it did. "In him," wrote Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, in their great defense of rococo art published almost a century after the death of Boucher, "French 18th century taste was manifest, in all the peculiarity of his character. Boucher was not only its painter but its chief witness, its chief representative, its very type...