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Percy must have written Lanterns on the Levee knowing he would be perhaps the last person to set down on paper his kind of life and values. As a result the book reads like an elegant manifesto for the old South, including all of the things aristocratic Southerners once held dear. Percy begins the book with lengthy descriptions of the Mississippi Delta country he lived in, its people, and his relatives, as if he could not begin to describe himself until he had first described his setting and background...
...rest is familiar history. Engels used his capitalist lucre to support the firm of Marx & Engels, tireless designers of revolutions, tailors of socialist theory, collaborators on scholarly books and pamphlets, including a long-term bestseller called The Communist Manifesto. The sullen, tobacco-stained genius Karl Marx and the buoyant, optimistic and modest Engels combined to make one of the most influential partnerships of all time. Marx supplied the creative thought, and Engels produced the human evidence, provided the money, and cleaned up Marx's turgid prose for the world to read. Although he was hesitant to admit it, Engels...
Vague Language. The Tories can hardly expect to defeat the Labor government by challenging such popular economic measures. Moreover, Wilson, by avoiding more controversial issues, refused to give Heath good targets. For instance, "nationalization" was never mentioned in the Queen's speech, though Labor's election manifesto had promised to nationalize many of Britain's major industries, including shipbuilding, trucking and construction. The only reference to an extension of public ownership was a cautiously worded promise to crack down on property speculators...
Hearst and Thieriot feel that they do not have that luxury. Thus the Examiner and the Chronicle have printed a long, windy S.L.A. manifesto. Both ran a second letter and the transcript of a tape recording of Patty Hearst's voice: the Examiner added a photocopy of the letter for good measure. Later tapes of Patricia received similar play. While stressing the story's newsworthiness, many San Francisco newsmen chafe at giving a handful of terrorists unlimited space. But, as Examiner Editor Tom Eastham observes, "There appears to be no alternative...
...London's Smith Square, Prime Minister Edward Heath strode into Tory Party headquarters to sound the keynote for his campaign for reelection. "It is essential to have a strong government which is firm but fair," he declared, picking up the theme of the Tories' 12,000-word manifesto "Firm Action for a Fair Britain." Across the square, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, in a rival press conference, tartly retitled the Tory manifesto "Infirm and Unfair." Slimmer than during his two terms as Prime Minister and reflectively puffing on a pipe, Wilson lashed out 'against inflation: eggs...