Word: manifeste
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...this point the Indians were killed for Christ solely because they were heathens. It was not until further scrutiny of their civilization revealed that they held their land communally and were in fact "actual, practising Communists," as one Manifest Destiny editorial warned, that they qualified for extinction on two counts...
...that these men failed to convert their words and feelings into the types of action needed to prevent the destruction of the Indian, failed too often to act at all, and were themselves more outnumbered than the Indians. The great, silent majority, no less enraptured by the melodies of Manifest Destiny than was Germany by the rhapsodies of the Reich, failed to realize what the destruction of the Indian meant to them, to America as a nation, and in time, to the land itself. As a result of this political and moral breakdown, year by year, tribe by tribe...
...into intolerant invective. For five days now, the 450 conference participants brought together in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had sought comprehensive strategies to make their religion a part of the solution to social and political injustices, both national and international. From the beginning of the conference, the diversity had been manifest with differing philosophies, analyses and strategies. The differences had grown with the organization, which was started six years before to protest the escalation in Vietnam. The leadership--concerned that the war was not over but sharing the feeling that its end was linked to the end of other government abuses...
Still, the regrettable notion that talent will irrepressibly manifest itself prevails among the faculty. Harvard offers opportunities for experience in the theatre, but not nearly enough for learning about it: imagination cannot take the place of discipline and guidance. Roger Sorkin, faculty advisor to the Currier House Drama Society, commented, "I don't think many people with dramatic talent have actually been squashed here, but it takes tremendous drive not to be discouraged...
...much art that it did not make and been so forked by the crisis of how to relate to it. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when art transactions were simpler and the founding of massive collections was an undisguised form of plunder, the problem was not consciously manifest. But in America today, nobody needs another Titian-not at these prices. The right to art by force of arms, which produced much of the Louvre's collection, has been superseded by an equally debatable "right" to art by force of buying power. Hence such misfortunes of cultural ecology...