Word: mannerize
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...Confident that Rajasthan can win back the travelers lured away by modish yoga retreats and full-moon beach parties, my tour guide reveals his dream for Chittorgarh. He wants to repaint its faded walls, he explains, and install a sound-and-light show by the victory tower-in the manner of tourist-friendly restorations that have taken place at sites elsewhere in the state. I try not to be too encouraging. This is one place where the clamor of imaginary armies, and the bright flash of chimerical steel, is the only spectacle required...
...don’t believe we will ever accomplish a complete digitalization of all that’s in our physical collections,” Cline says. “I think we’ll always have a hybrid relationship of using the things in the manner in which they were originally published [as well as] their digital surrogates...
...Over the past four years, I have seen this campus stirred and occasionally shaken by students, faculty, and workers who have dared to do so. Often pitting themselves against powerful institutions, they brought to light all manner of issues confronting the University: diversity and discrimination, wealth and poverty, civil liberty and authority, action or inaction in the face of atrocity...
...were not afraid of the tribunals, and if they felt confident of always finding in them ready and perfect justice, lawsuits would tend to increase to a frightful amount," the passage reads. "Those who have recourse to the tribunals should be treated without any pity, and in such a manner that they shall be disgusted with law, and tremble to appear before a magistrate...
...that some may see them as less than equal members of the Harvard community, they do belong here as respected and valued members of the Harvard family. Similar campaigns are frequently used effectively when minorities are made to feel alienated and estranged, and raising the issue in such a manner is a good first step towards assuaging tensions...