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Though his own black denomination (and indeed his congregation) is basically middle class, Calvin Marshall sees no anomaly in preaching a radical Gospel. He is chairman of the Black Economic Development Conference, whose field director, James Forman, stunned U.S. churches and synagogues last year with a Black Manifesto demanding "reparations" of $500 million for the years of suffering that blacks endured at white hands, and the years of neglect by white churches. Though B.E.D.C. has collected less than $200,000 so far, other black groups and caucuses within white denominations have also been recipients of sizable "conscience" funds. And with...
Fortunately, vigorous objectors abound in Manhattan. Last month the brand-new International Council of Legmen issued its first public manifesto. Major aim of "this dedicated group of gam aficionados: to establish a unified voice on fashion decisions relating to female leg exposure." Says Council Chairman Thomas Redington: "Designers are paying too little attention to legmen. We're going to change all that, even if it takes some high-pressure lobbying." Already, letters have gone out to all members of Congress; Legmen predict large-scale support...
This has also been evident in the West's largest Communist party, the Italian, with 1,500,000 members and 25% of the national vote. Last lune a dissident faction in the Italian party started publishing a newspaper called // Manifesto, whose attacks on the leadership and demands for revolution gave Italian Communists the somewhat dubious distinction of having their own underground press. Since late last year, no fewer than 272 Communists associated with the paper have been suspended indefinitely from their party jobs. Compared with the mass purges and even executions in Western parties during Stalin...
This article speaks from the gay male viewpoint. And although some of the ideas in it may be equally relevant to gay women, it would be arrogant to presume this to be a manifesto for lesbians...
...poetry is play. He has the nerve to say: " The unacknowledged legislators of the world' describes the secret police, not the poets." Can high art be as amusing as Auden makes it? Eliot once said that the purpose of art was to entertain-and got away with the manifesto. Auden practiced that belief poetically-and for a long time paid the critical price...