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...EARLY '60s Rainer began her dance-making career with a catalog of negatives. Her 1965 manifesto declares...
...manner of sexist bias [Aug. 9], it should become mandatory that authors and journalists maneuver carefully through our manifold English vocabulary in every way necessary to free the written word from the menial menace of chauvinist prefixes and suffixes. Hopefully, the East Coast editorial establishment will respond to this manifesto, especially those who live and work in Manhattan. If they do not, the only alternative left open to the people is a nationwide personcott of the press...
...Republican platform is, to a large extent, a Reagan manifesto to which the Ford forces acquiesced in the interests of party harmony. Still, about the only part of the platform that Ford will have trouble living with is the foreign policy plank's implied rebuke of detente with the Soviet Union. One large question for the Ford campaign now is to what extent the Reagan forces are satisfied and will actively work for the ticket. William Rusher, publisher of the National Review and an ideological force behind the idea of a third-party breakaway, admitted last week at the Kansas...
Jowitt's view translates into practical terms the notions of author-critic Susan Sonntag in her essay "Against Interpretation," a manifesto of sorts for the sixties' avant-garde. Sonntag writes...
...matter where it appeared, the document was hardly compelling reading. A wordy piece of revolutionary rhetoric, the manifesto excoriated Owens-Illinois as "one of the many multinationals that plunder the country" and called for Venezuelans to "strengthen their fight for socialism." Nonetheless, the episode apparently enraged the Perez regime. After a Cabinet meeting, the Information Minister announced that the government had "decided to acquire the stock"-meaning expropriation-of the Owens-Illinois subsidiary because it had "offended the dignity of the country and promoted the subversion of our constitutional order...