Word: manifester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laurent, who must certainly be one of the world's most energetic septuagenarians. In India and Ceylon he has been following a 15-hours-a-day schedule of official functions, sightseeing and shopping. The amount of shopping he and his party have done is best seen on the manifest of the Royal Canadian Air Force plane. There were 70 pieces of luggage on board when the plane left Ottawa; at the halfway point in Ceylon the count had risen...
...stage are trying to identify themselves, but it is a sense of identity to which biological parentage is more or less irrelevant. When the movies want to convince their audience that a great musician is performing, they typically provide a close-up shot of swiftly flying fingers. The manifest problem of parentage bears the same relation to Eliot's concern with psychological or religious identity that agile fingers have to great musical ability. It is kind of mass symbol for the real thing. As members of the audience we waste our time if we try to puzzle out the kinship...
...post-script on this subject was the author's statement that "from the findings of our study we may venture a guess that six percent of the male student drinkers and at most one percent of the woman manifest positive signs of being potential problem drinkers...
Throughout the Seminar the brooding and benevolent spirit of Harvard is manifest in innumerable ways. And in the speech which he interrupted his vacation to give at Schloss Leopoldskron, the home of the Salzburg Seminar, High Commissioner James Bryant Conant expressed a justifiable pride in Harvard's role in the Seminar's history...
This attitude of mind, then, manifest even high in the University administration, has had much to do with both the "low estate of religion at Harvard" and the low estate of the Divinity School. Yet even among those more tolerant toward, and interested in religion, many have feared that the Divinity School can only be reemphasized to the detriment of the other schools and fields. President Pusey unfortunately added fuel to this fear when he voiced his belief that "It is leadership in religious knowledge and religious experience--not increased industrial might, not more research facilities, certainly not these things...