Word: manifestoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week, before a scant ten members of the House of Deputies, Deputy Pomar stood up and read a rousing, 2,000-word manifesto from Communist Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. It was a statement of party position and a call to arms: "We must block the march of reaction . . . resist without weakening . . . fight for our rights. . . We must organize in our places of work, in the mills, on the farms . . . resorting when necessary to strikes. . . Prove to your fellow workers the real necessity of fighting and resisting the government of hunger, the government of political terror. . . We must fight...
...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...
...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...