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Signed by nine members of the 30-man Revolutionary Council and at least 400 other officers, the manifesto quickly received the support of the commandos, the cavalry school and the paratroopers, as well as the commanders of the central and southern military regions. The junta immediately retaliated by suspending the nine dissident members of the Council for signing it. But at week's end the document was reportedly being circulated freely throughout all three branches of the armed forces, and gathering more and more signatures...
Last month Sakharov completed a 20,000-word essay titled My Country and the World, which will be published in the U.S. by Alfred A. Knopf later this year. In his introduction, Sakharov describes this new book as an updating of his widely publicized 1968 manifesto, Thoughts on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom, in which he called for rapprochement between the Communist and capitalist systems. The physicist writes that he decided to undertake the new project largely as a result of a discussion about détente in his Moscow apartment last November with New York's Conservative...
While part of Percy wants to see language as magical and ineffable, another part of him would like to out-analyze the scientists. The Message in the Bottle slowly progresses from essays "toward" various theories of meaning and what-not to a final manifesto that, he says, only professional linguists will read: "A Theory of Language." This is the essay that boasts ignorance as one of its chief virtues. It begins with "the Discovery That an Explanatory Theory Does Not Presently Exist," and concludes with, if not a theory, at least a suggestion of where to look. Percy's occasionally...
...Inefficiency in America" (March 23, 1970) and "Can the World Survive Economic Growth?" (Aug. 14, 1972). But none of his assignments have been as global as the subject he tackled for this week's cover story: the future of capitalism as it approaches the bicentennial of its manifesto, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations...
...seemed especially dismal to Karl Marx, who damned capitalism as an inhuman system in which "all that is holy is profaned." He charged that it tended to "mutilate the laborer into a fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of appendage of a machine." In The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Frederick Engels conceded that capitalism "has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together." Nonetheless, Marx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself: "Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation...