Word: manifeste
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...flat. She's a schoolmarm, and she plays him mountain music on what sounds like a clavichord. Poor slavey-she's got more sex than teacher, but what good is sex, she asks herself ruefully, against a clavichord? Silly girl. The hero soon enough succumbs to manifest destiny...
...Said Paris-Presse of the results: "If Karnow was presenting this article to a jury of youth for his baccalaureate, he would have obtained the grade assez bien [much better than passing]." The paper quoted Jacques Auberger, Secretary General of the Paris Students' Federation, as saying: "It is manifest that the article . . . reflects quite perfectly the essence of the situation of French youth...
...Okinawan tradition leprosy was considered an evidence of evil, on the part of either the sufferer or his ancestors. Aoki countered by reciting Christ's absolution of the blind man: "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him (John...
...will of the people finally became manifest a fortnight ago at a convention of Adhemar's personally operated Social Progressive Party. Into the assembly hall of Rio's Chamber of Deputies whose rosewood paneling and carved furnishings were hidden by banners, flowers and clouds of confetti, thronged delegates and onlookers. Perfumed women in mink stoles mixed with cab drivers and shoeshine boys. Some spectators shinnied up columns for a better view. After hours of "man-who" speeches, Adhemar entered, slapping backs, embracing, shaking hands. When at last his figure towered over them from the platform, the crowd whooped...
...tech iques and principles of their craft. Greenshields, who paints seashore scenes in his spare time, deplores the fact that few young artists today get enough basic training. He blames "the iconoclasm and unbridled license of a rapidly growing and articulate group of artists and their sup porters who manifest a positive obsession to distort and, where possible, to dispense with all natural forms." Greenshields' huffing and puffing will never blow down the mansion of modern art, for it is no house of cards. But when artists say, as did Montreal Painter Goodridge Roberts, that Greenshields has chosen...