Word: manifestoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year, after Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, Giolitti wrote a manifesto demanding party independence from Moscow, and a pledge that the party would seek power democratically and would give up power if democratically defeated. "You can't change the Communist Party by leaving it," Giolitti told his friends. "I want to fight this out openly and honestly within the party." Aware of Giolitti's prestige. Italian Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti responded gingerly. Sitting behind him on the platform at the national Party Congress last December, Togliatti yawned when Giolitti openly demanded that...
...overhear him and prove him wrong. The leftist followers of Aneurin Bevan suspect Gaitskell of trying to make Labor "not a Socialist Party at all but a mere ginger group for making capitalism work more efficiently and humanely." Last week, after much labor, the party brought forth a manifesto on the subject, which the Economist promptly dubbed "Mouse with a Leer...
...their faces hideous as primitive African masks. On seeing the painting, French Painter Georges Braque gasped: "You are asking us to drink petrol in order to spit fire." Today, Demoiselles, which made primitive art an accepted fountainhead of modern art, has only the dated quality of yesteryear's manifesto. But it marked a significant break in art history, ushering in an age in which art is no longer the readily grasped reaffirmation of everyman's vision, but a special hierarchical world into Avhich initiation is required. Reported Gertrude Stein: "Picasso said once that he who created a thing...
Behind the Amis vogue is a conscious retreat from Utopia. The "new men'' have withdrawn from politics-and politics has withdrawn from them. Amis himself spelled it out in a pamphlet entitled Socialism and the Intellectuals. Fumblingly written but painfully sincere, it may be the first authentic manifesto of an apolitical literary age. Amis confesses that he finds politics a bore, and that he votes the Labor ticket as a kind of conditioned reflex-two admissions which infuriated British Laborites and old-line liberals. Analyzing his own apathy, Amis makes the pertinent reflection that intellectuals are political romantics...
...Dean of Canterbury, Kremlin-loving Dr. Hewlett Johnson, 82, an anachronistic Marxist who still sees the same world that was decried in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, wended his way to Britain's University of Durham, to harangue some 350 students on his threadbare theme of "world peace through trust in the Soviet Union." He had barely begun babbling when seven students entered the hall, bore down the aisle a coffin draped in Hungary's national colors, solemnly rested it before his rostrum. Chirped the Red Dean nervously, as applause filled the building: "May wars cease." After finishing...