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...which is to lead up to the fact that a new literary magazine has been published, that both Hall and Train are on its staff, and that the magazine's manifesto proclaims that it will "strive to give predominant space to the fiction and poetry of both established and new writers, rather than to people who use words like Zeitgeist." The manifesto was written by William Styron, young author of the excellent novel "Lie Down in Darkness," whose pet phobia is the word, "Zeitgeist." He writes in the preface to the first issue of "The Paris Review" that "I still...
...Your manifesto gives hope of sane, solid journalism in years to come. It also gives evidence of the deep democratic and theocentric philosophy which is its root. Here is a magazine which realistically denies the puerile illusion that all is relative-morality, beauty and truth...
...same year that Marx & Engels published their Communist Manifesto (1848), a group of women met in Seneca Falls, N.Y., pondered their discontents, and issued a manifesto of their own. "The history of mankind," it said, "is a history of repeated injuries . . . toward woman." The downtrodden of Seneca Falls resolved to turn woman's wrongs into Woman's Rights. Moreover, the same sort of female revolt was getting under way all over Christendom...
...rather decent couple, Victor and Margot Stamp, who keep turning up like good pennies. Victor is a down & cut Australian painter who has sunk to faking Van Goghs in an Old Masters "factory." Margot, his common-law wife, is a girl with a one-tract mind-not the Communist Manifesto but Victor's welfare. But Victor's Marxist pals have little use for the dialectic of true love. They maneuver Victor into taking a job smuggling guns into Spain...
...Congress. Out of his cell, the little father of Soviet Russia smuggled a program for a new Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party. Only nine delegates managed to get past the police and mutter hurriedly for three days at Minsk in 1898. They just had time to draft a manifesto before the police caught up with them...