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...tone is aggressive, the rhetoric insistent (and the syntax a bit shaky). "We believe that the conditions of our time force us to recognize the distance between what we say liberal arts can do and what it is now doing," declares the Manifesto of Liberal Arts College Presidents. Colleges have merely educated students to be consumers of the status quo, not innovators, the manifesto charges, while college presidents have become "mere managers, not educators." Furthermore, it asks, do students who come to college "without the skills to read, to think critically and to express themselves leave our institutions with these...
...Czechoslovakia. After a brief lull the official Czechoslovak press resumed its ferocious attacks on the nearly 500 signers of Charter 77, a manifesto calling for compliance with the Helsinki human rights accord. The charter had provoked the alarm and fury of the regime because its adherents include the country's foremost writers and intellectuals, plus ousted leaders of the liberal regime of Alexander Dubcek. Last week the charter was endorsed by Dubcek himself, who has been working for the forestry office in Bratislava since he was deposed by the Russian invaders...
...Littérature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature). OuLiPo's 17 members - all Paris-based writers and scientists - meet once a month at well-lubricated lunches to discuss the creation of new literary structures, most of them based on mathematical forms. Asks the group's formal manifesto: "Must we abide by the known recipes and obstinately refuse to imagine new formulas? What certain writers have introduced in their fashion, with talent (indeed genius), OuLiPo intends to do systematically and scientifically, and if need be, by resorting to the good offices of computers." "Structure is the work of OuLiPo...
...propose consciousness-raising exercises on not only the hidden artistic aspects of everyday buildings, but on the hidden economic and political aspects of a society that lead it to discard these buildings as non-profitable and therefore valueless--then America's Forgotten Architecture would have been a revolutionary manifesto. The book is now a record of fights won, but offers little challenge to future duels. Too bad. It could have been a contender...
...Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon the studio head Monroe Stahr, worried by union activity under his nose, orders the screenwriting department to send him a two page "treatment" of the Communist Manifesto. No doubt many of the blacklistees never read any more Marx than Stahr did, but they found that they had to pay for it later. The most remarkable and admirable thing about the Hollywood Ten still, is that they took responsibility for their past and showed a willingness to proclaim their ownership of a collective legacy of principle. Some smart guys think they should have done things differently...