Word: manifeste
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...height of a largely unheralded musical career, the Velvet Underground produced their second album, White Light/White Heat -an album which so powerfully realizes the group's violently alienated vision that listening to it is often unbearable. In 1968, rock's manifest destiny was apparently to grow progressively more violent, perverted, and electronic. White Light/White Heat was about as far as rock got in that direction...
...almost all of the activities of the movement. One does not have to be crazy to blow up buildings, nor does one have to be infatuated with violence. The real insanity and infatuation with violence in this country are located deep within basic political and economic structures, and manifest themselves constantly, from the sanctimony of a president announcing invasions to the arrogance of professors defending their assistance in the formulation of U. S. foreign policy...
...chilling effect" referred to above is manifest when mere doubt or the need to weigh previously untrammeled behavior is present. According to the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (Jan., 1970), "secret files are inherently dangerous and by their very existence tend to restrict/chill/deter those who would advocate, within protected areas, social and political change." The chilling effect consists of an awareness of the existence of files as well as the apprehension that such files will be used systematically to harass individuals or groups. "Citizens are chilled when, on the basis of awareness and apprehension, they become unwilling...
...firm, but it was not, and could not have been, final. As Philosopher George Santayana, looking at the American Puritan through half-Spanish eyes, noted: "For the moment, it is certainly easier to suppress the wild impulses of our nature than to manifest them fitly, at the right times and with the proper fugitive emphasis; yet in the long run, suppression does not solve the problem, and meantime those maimed expressions which are allowed are infected with a secret misery and falseness." Nearly 31 centuries later, the Merry Mount case no longer seems so open and shut. Not only could...
...doctrine of the Trinity discloses partiality in leaving out of deity all trace of femininity. One of the three should be a she. To manifest divinity required a real nativity, and that required maternity, a woman's creativity. Which one of the three should be a she? Because the cosmos needs a hostess we recommend: Father, Son and Holy Ghostess...