Word: manifestoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first meeting of the National Black Economic Development Conference in Detroit just two years ago this week, a solemn, angry black man rose to read a "Black Manifesto." He demanded, among other things, $500 million in "reparations" from white U.S. churches and synagogues. What he wanted, said James Forman bluntly, was to be paid for past injustices. He calculated the bill at "$15 per nigger," and he urged black people "to commence the disruption of white racist churches and synagogues." Eight days later, Forman and some of his followers invaded Riverside Church, Manhattan's temple of liberal Protestantism...
...true impact of Forman's pronouncement, however, is greater than B.E.D.C.'s bank account. Though the manifesto in fact antagonized a good many churchmen, it may have helped release literally millions of dollars for expanded or new programs to aid minority groups, especially blacks. White churchmen generally deny that they are acting in direct response to the manifesto, whose revolutionary appeal they abhor. But in a number of denominations, there is evidence of a heightened effort to overcome the racial and social problems the manifesto dramatized. The churchmen are exercising control over their money and for the most...
...extremists, the first signal illumination came in the explosion last March that ripped up a Weatherman bomb factory in Manhattan, killing three members of the group. Weatherman activity declined, and then, early in December, Fugitive Bernardine Dohrn, one of the group's leaders, issued a manifesto that was at once a critique of past mistakes and a manual for future strategy...
...early De Kooning. Near the end of his life, Marin was almost literally writing the paint onto his canvases -his own title for a 1950 oil was The Written Sea-with an immediacy of gesture that irresistibly reminds one of Pollock. Many of his notes read like a manifesto of the New York School: he was preoccupied with the integrity of the picture plane ("By George I am not to convey the feel that it's bent out of its own individual flatness") and rejected illusionism ("Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint...
...marvelously eccentric manifesto, Olney writes: "My kitchen I love, but I would recommend it to no one else." Just as well, because he cooks mostly on an open hearth where roasts turn on a spit, meat and fish are grilled, and vegetables bake buried in the hot ashes. Furthermore, he adds, "from time to time I climb to the rooftop and suspend a marinated rolled boar's belly or other delicacy in the chimney to be smoked." He is not really a masochist. The reason for this laborious approach is that the techniques of French cooking were perfected with...