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...language. Much of the description of dreams does not make very good sense, as the word is customarily used. But this is in line with the attitude "The writer expresses, he does not communicate." This idea, which infuriated some critics, was expounded by "transition" in a manifesto called "The Revolution of the Word." The manifesto closed with the statement, "The plain reader be damned...
...Laber has put through its program very well," Beer thought. Practically everything on the 1945 election manifesto, he said, can now be matched up with a statute or regulation. "But the fact that they had to put through so much made them a little inflexible," he continued. He pointed out that they could not foresee the great burden of armaments that Britain would have to bear...
...Even if men are well fed, clothed and housed, it will not be enough . . . [Man] must feel that he is more than an automaton, a cog in a machine." In these forceful phrases last week, 48 business, labor and religious leaders issued what might well be called a Capitalist Manifesto...
...Bread Alone. The manifesto set forth that the root of labor's past unrest and dissatisfaction was management's own failure, all too often, to "meet the needs of man's moral and social nature." His needs went far deeper than a good wage. They included the need of recognition of his dignity as an individual, his desire for the esteem of others, and the assurance of a decent living and a secure future...
...Labor Party election manifesto, said Churchill, contains "an effective design, or plot-for that is a truer term-to obtain power .over their fellow countrymen such as no British government has ever sought before...