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...that is a recent reputation. Through the '40s and '50s in New York, when he was the youngest of the original abstract expressionist group, his conscious Francophilia set him rather apart from his colleagues. It was often taken as a denial of American newness. as a manifesto of eclecticism. Other artists dissimulated their debts to French painting or let critics bury them. Not Motherwell. Thus he was much abused as a mock European, all taste and private income-a Dick Diver, not attuned to the harsh and epic voice of the American pictorial myth...
...leave us wondering--as they are meant to do--what became of the others in the Komite. What of the women who sang to keep up the spirits of the other prisoners? What of the man under torture because SAVAK's agents found an unread copy of "The Communist Manifesto" in his room? Like Baraheni, they have nothing to confess, nothing to offer their torturers but a denial of their existence...
...trial began with a Curcio lieutenant reading a manifesto that denounced the whole process as a "grotesque spectacle." Curcio himself pointed to the ten impassive black-robed defense attorneys and called them "crows in form and pigs in substance." When the trial reconvened after a four-day recess, he demanded to return to his cell, and the manacled prisoners clanked out of the courtroom...
...hard look at each other on a sunny Monday morning and got a divorce." Lancelot's and Percy's hurricanes are meant to sweep out the artificial hurricane of false elation and superficial radicalism that do not pull out the roots of the problem. Lancelot concludes with a Christian manifesto, but as Percy says in his essay "Notes for a Novel About the End of the World...
...manifesto, issued last week by the new presidents of four small liberal arts colleges (Bard, Bennington, Scripps and Wheaton), is the latest salvo in a major debate now roiling many academic institutions. With the tuition cost of a private liberal arts education soaring to as high as $5,500 a year, colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to justify the expense-particularly since many of their graduates cannot find jobs. Practical "vocational" programs have become popular. Just last year T.H. Bell, then U.S. Commissioner of Education, declared, "It is our duty to provide our students with salable skills...