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...hundred years ago next month, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published their famed Manifesto: "A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism." Last week Russia prepared to celebrate the anniversary with suitable huzzahs. "I would like old Marx to see how we are now storming the planet!" cried young Poet Sergei Narovchatov in an ode for the literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). Other excerpts from Poet Narovchatov's proud progress report...
...meticulous "manifesto" the new group warned the U.S. against a certain "powerful church" which "has committed itself in authoritative declarations and by positive acts to a policy plainly subversive of religious liberty as guaranteed by the Constitution." But, announced the group carefully: "As Protestants we can be called anti-Catholic only in the sense in which every Roman Catholic is anti-Protestant. Profound differences ... of religious faith . . . have no relevancy in the pursuit of our objectives. . . . The issue of the separation of church and state has arisen in the political area, and we propose to meet it there...
...musty shelves, however, do not harbor copies of the Communist manifesto, but a collection of second hand books selling for half price. Samuel Morrill, son of a Boston mail-order house owner, has bought Tutin's with aspirations of making it the "most interesting bookshop in Cambridge...
Cambridge citizens, completely indifferent both to the Communist Manifesto or to a discordant trie yodelling "Show Me the Way to Go Home," have a marked preference for the verses of T. S. Eliot. Perhaps it's the College influence...
...raised an eyebrow to the Manifesto or the troubadours, but even bootblacks joined the crowd listening with rhapsody to a rendition of Eliot's "Fragment of an Agon...