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...wish Dershowitz would understand that the Jewish culture has always overemphasized intellectual prominence and strength as a source of self-worth. That's why people raised in that ethos are more susceptible to finding that they have to chronically manifest greater and greater levels of competency to feel psychologically secure. When the mere acquisition of money loses its significance, beating the system can become a convenient mechanism for recapturing one's self-esteem. Actually, if Dershowitz understood how truly desperate these men were to validate their sense of self-worth, he might use the success syndrome as a defense...
...Quincy House sophomore and self-admitted Anal Retentive Person (ARP) Manuel S. Varela '94, neatness and order manifest themselves in laying out the next day's clothes the night before, in order of what goes on first--shoes and socks last, of course...
Bogosian's Sex Drugs Rock & Roll, handsomely filmed by John McNaughton, is a 10-pack of modular monologues. The subjects don't interact with one another; they shout at invisible targets. But it's soon manifest that in their common rancor, they constitute a lost tribe of American masculinity. The street stud, the down-home Don Juan, the vicious entertainment lawyer, a couple or three psychopaths -- all plan their killer strategies and lullaby themselves with fantasies of apocalypse and revenge. Bogosian rarely sentimentalizes his creatures or provides the familiar monologue arc of comedy, poignancy, comedy. As writer he creates...
Ominously recalling Iran in the months before the Ayatullah Khomeini's revolution, thousands of Muslim worshipers manifest their desire for an Islamic republic by walking to the Kouba mosque each Friday morning. The men flaunt their allegiance by wearing long cotton kamis and beards -- reputedly the dress of the Prophet Muhammad. The sheik whom they come to hear speaks of martyrdom and sedition...
Readers, however, have an all but boundless appetite for revisiting accustomed pleasures. That is nowhere more true than in the mystery, whose audiences manifest, by their choice of genre, a taste for restoring established order. Victorians so yearned to watch Sherlock Holmes perform his tricks again and again that after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed him out of boredom, he gave in and resurrected the great detective. Dame Agatha Christie had the same murderous impulse toward Hercule Poirot, but slyly tucked the manuscript away until her demise. To this day, the first thing publishers ask is whether a mystery...