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...book is an addition to the growing shelf of works that seek to outline a future consistently libertarian society. USC philosophy professor John Hospers, Ayn Rand, and Murray Rothbard are others who have written similar books. Many have hailed Rothbard's scholarly "For a New Liberty" as the libertarian manifesto and he has become the leading theoretician of the movement...
With other artists in the show, low energy slides into mere inconsequence. Their work is elaborately hermetic, and so looks like a manifesto. But what is being manifested? Manual labor, apparently-endless somnambulistic notations, proffering not a whit of meaning. One could possibly train ants to do it. Thus the German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, 33, has assembled two huge panels, each made of several hundred sheets of paper scrawled with words-strings of unrelated numbers, written out in German. This arithmorrhea, she assures the catalogue reader, has nothing to do with mathematics. Nor, apparently, is it meant...
Wilson realizes that Labor will have to broaden its appeal if it expects to win a majority of Parliament's seats. To placate the middle class, Labor in its election manifesto has reduced the number of industries earmarked for nationalization. To soothe the many Britons who still oppose membership in the Common Market-which the Tories boast was Heath's most important achievement as Prime Minister-Labor promises to hold a referendum within twelve months on withdrawal from...
...retired military officers. Labor Home Secretary Roy Jenkins accused the Tories of "climbing onto the pathetic bandwagon of some superannuated colonels." Rippon's "reserve" proved such a touchy idea that Tory Party Chairman William Whitelaw was forced to point out that it was not mentioned in the party manifesto...
Then even the manifesto caused some Tory red faces. Prepared after long intramural wrangling, it was scheduled for publication late last week after Heath returned from a trip to the U.S. While Heath was still abroad, copies of the manifesto were mysteriously slipped to three London dailies, which proceeded to scoop the Conservative Party with its own platform. Entitled "Putting Britain First," the manifesto puts the fight against inflation above everything else, warning bluntly that "because of the economic crisis, there is no room for early improvement in living standards." The political thrust of the document was clearly aimed...