Word: manifeste
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...doubtful that Odets' own pungency will manifest itself on TV, but there is no doubt that it still exists-if only in the turbulent air above his coffee table, which is often covered with bits of four half-finished plays and the nearly complete libretto of a musical version of Golden Boy, which will star Sammy Davis Jr. on Broadway next season. With almost no prompting, the playwright is ready to sound off with four-letter gusto about almost anything...
Actually such manifest disillusionment with Harvard basketball is probably not justified, at least not yet. The Crimson did look terrible losing to Amherst last week, but turned in a markedly improved performance before bowing to Boston College Thursday...
...weaknesses of man. Proud of the civilization they have wrested from the desert, the Mormons consider their material possessions a sign of God's favor. "The cosmic wisdom that lives in the words of the Prophets and the deeds of Brigham Young," lectures a Mormon, "does not manifest itself exclusively in enormous truths which can only be contained in the brains of university professors; no, it lives also in the sewing machines of people who yesterday had correct thoughts, certainly, but no shirt." Laxness' Mormon men take sly pride in the number of wives they accumulate; their justifications...
...interpose its authority so as to void a federal law within its own borders was struck down long ago -pragmatically by the Civil War and legally by decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1932 Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, speaking for a unanimous court, declared it to be "manifest" that a state Governor could not invoke his powers to infringe anyone's rights under the Federal Constitution. In the Little Rock decision in 1958, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion that the school desegregation decision "can neither be nullified openly and directly by state legislators...
...supposes only an increase in exports as the major result of the Bill. Not only is this far from the Free Trade spirit (which seeks to increase the total volume of trade, imports and exports); it is surprisingly naive, in the face of the Common Market's manifest protection-mindedness. Despite the speeches of European statesmen, there is little evidence of genuine Free Trad sentiment there either...