Word: manifestoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just 25 years ago the three revolutionaries had joined in a manifesto whose shot was heard round the art world. The signers declared joint war on easel painting, which they regarded as essentially aristocratic because it ended up on rich people's walls. Their own murals, on the other hand, would have "beauty for all, beauty that enlightens and stirs to struggle." But for all their puffing, and for all their sometimes great murals, the School of Paris and its effete paintings were not wiped off the earth. In fact, Mexico's new generation is being lured away...
...that since World War I no other mind has so potently influenced the political and economic thinking and action of our times. There are masses of unconscious Marxists-men & women who have never read Marx's Capital, and who would rather be found dead than reading the Communist Manifesto, but whose thinking about the role of economic forces in history, the responsibility of government for the individual, and the importance of economic security v. political freedom has nevertheless been profoundly influenced by the choleric expatriate from Prussia...
...Paris he hobnobbed with Friedrich Engels, elegant, fox-hunting scion of a prosperous German textile tycoon. With him Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto (1848), with him he shared his ideas, hopes, miseries and triumphs. Engels gave him implicit intellectual and political obedience, supported him most of his life and finally settled an annuity on him. In 1848 both Marx and Engels were neckdeep in the revolutionary wave that swept over Europe...
...wave of dis illusioned Americans broke on a foreign shore that was wholly receptive to their discontent. In 1924, at the death of France's premier novelist, Anatole France, members of the new Surrealist movement had shown their antipathy to the old literary regime by issuing a raucous manifesto entitled Did You Ever Slap A Corpse? At the same time, followers of the deliberately infantile Dada movement were exhibiting "paintings" that showed a decisive break with the old tradition-being composed chiefly of newspaper clippings and shoelaces...
...object of all this kudos was a small, quiet, black-eyed, 60-year-old man stiffly dressed in a black sack coat and old-fashioned starched collar. Because he signed a wartime manifesto favoring "democracy and American solidarity," he was promptly fired from his job at the University of Buenos Aires by Argentina's Dictator Juan Peron...