Word: manifeste
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...their differences have escalated into the same kind of civil war on the Right that split the radical Students for a Democratic Society during the same summer. Nowhere is this Y. A. F. split-a valid reflection of the internal contradiction throughout the American right-wing-more manifest than in Southern California...
...concepts of Vietnamization and honorable peace confuse our nation into imagining that we can construe our intervention in Indochinese affairs since the end of World War II as somehow right, because we have expended so much material treasure and American life in hopefully our last venture in Manifest Destiny. This is not repentance...
...Arguing that a court-martial does not adequately protect a defendant's rights, they made a motion to dismiss the charges. Even Calley's career-Army lawyer, Major Kenneth Raby, concurred, quoting a recent Supreme Court decision that criticizes military trials as "marked by the age-old manifest destiny of retributive justice...
...summons to duty and patriotism sound incredibly nostalgic to ears grown used to a decade of shouts of raw passion, cacophonous protest and violence. The bright promise that began the '60s turned to confusion and near despair as the decade ended. President Kennedy's version of U.S. manifest destiny seemed to be followed by what Psychiatrist Frederick Hacker calls "a rendezvous with manifest absurdity...
...folly of this conception of university is, I think, manifest. The university is not the political party of the faculty, or any other constituency within the university: it belongs, for better or for worse, to the society at large. And if the university is to continue in its special and delicate role as the center of critical intellectual activity-a role only grudgingly regarded by the rest of American society-the, supporters of the Faculty resolution on the Vietnam war should think again about what they are doing...