Word: manifestoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is one time when the plebes can talk. Occasionally, upperclassmen may ask plebes to memorize something or other (say the Communist Manifesto, or Bill Buckley's latest column). At a later meal, they are called upon to recite their lines...
...poorly? In a recent article in the New York Review of Books, Christopher Lasch argues that McGovern fails to make an impact on people because he has not assumed a populist stance. In a recent interview, Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield, authors of the book A Populist Manifesto, took a similar stance. After hearing McGovern on the stump for a week, it is fair to say that this assertion is simply not true. McGovern consistently attacks the Nixon administration for selling out to "special interests" and proceeds to attacks the President for the ITT affair and the Russian grain deal...
...Boggs-after a defeat at the polls and a four-year hitch in the Navy-returned in 1946, and has been there since. Representing an urban and cosmopolitan section of New Orleans, he was not the stereotypical Southern Congressman. Though he joined other Southerners in signing a 1956 manifesto opposing school integration, he dramatically came out in favor of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and three years later voted for the open housing law. Brash and at times arrogant, Boggs had a great talent for booming oratory. He thoroughly enjoyed the clubby conviviality of the Congress, but had a high...
...notable exception is the extraordinary 77-page title story, "The Temptation of Jack Orkney." Jack Orkney is a British journalist and author, a secular saint of the socialist old guard who could always be depended on to whip up a manifesto or organize a protest. At middle age, Orkney has survived ideological squalls with his honor intact. He and his wife enjoy a warm, understanding relationship. His daughters are grown and liberated; his son is a chip off the old radical bloc. But when Orkney is called north to the bedside of his dying father, he begins to have cold...
...review of A Populist Manifesto in New York Magazine, James Q. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department, wrote that "In Forest Hills, New York and Pontiac, Michigan, whites do not think that the most important question of the decade is whether General Motors is one giant company or five nearly-giant companies or whether Carter Burden's money is confiscated by a 90 per cent estate tax. They think that the most important issue is whether housing projects with poor black tenants will be built in their neighborhoods and whether white school children will be bused to distant black schools...