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...date, is already just such a highbrow blockbuster. This erudite yet passionate treatise on the danger of nuclear war attracted widespread attention when it first appeared two months ago in three successive issues of The New Yorker, where Schell is a staff writer. The series immediately became the principal manifesto for advocates of a nuclear-arms freeze, as well as an inspiration for numerous speeches, lectures, editorials and sermons. Alfred A. Knopf has already ordered a large second printing of The Fate of the Earth and plans to have 75,000 copies on sale around the country...
Unlike the short skirts of the 1960s, the new minis are not political or sexual proclamations. For many a dashing lass in that pioneering wave, the A-line mini was a kind of manifesto at the feminist barricades. The first cutoff skirts of Great Britain's Mary Quant, recalls Fashion Writer Suzy Menkes in the London Times, "were conceived as a rejection of everything that existing fashion stood for." They were also "an explicit sexual statement. Today's minis are far less predatory, and when they are worn over thick tights with leg warmers and big sweaters, they...
...every important Democrat, though, is afflicted with intellectual paralysis. A growing consensus of Congressional Democrats, journalists, and scholars are uniting around comprehensive policy proposals pragmatically tailored to the demands of the times. Celebrated in a recent Esquire article as "the neoliberals," they take as their manifesto Sen. Paul Tsongas's The Road From Here and point to Sen. Gary Hart as a possible standard-bearer in the 1984 presidential race. These two youthful and appealing gentlemen, joined by junior senators such as New Jersey's Bill Bradley, representatives like Colorado's Timothy Wirth and Missouri's Richard Gephardt, and heavy...
...hour when live television coverage had been due to begin. While about 15 terrorists would throw grenades and spray the delegates with machine-gun fire, according to the plan, one of their comrades was supposed to dash before a TV camera to read a political manifesto to a horrified nation. Police arrested the terrorists who were to launch the attack, and the congress met as planned...
...cool too." Another ad, inserted by a people's used-furniture collective, condemns alienating queen-size beds, recommending instead "our Warm Valley Bed . .. narrow and soft and shaped like a trough, gently urging its occupants toward the middle: the bed of commitment." There is a hesitant manifesto titled "Shy Rights: Why Not Pretty Soon?" by a militant shy who confesses that "while we don't have a Shy Pride Week, we do have many private moments when we keep our thoughts to ourselves, such as 'Shy is nice,' 'Walk short,' 'Be proud-shut...