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...Democratic Congressman from North Carolina from 1934 to 1966; of emphysema; in Wilson, N.C. Cooley was chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture for 16 years and veteran of countless annual farm battles. He was the only Southern Democratic Congressman who survived a refusal to sign the "Southern Manifesto" against racial integration...
...pacifist strain in his music? Or does Dylan's appeal still lie in the undercurrent of moralism, the attractiveness of a message like that of "Blowin' in the Wind," the song with which he chose to begin the evening concert's second half? The one time Dylan attempted manifesto was two years ago with "George Jackson," a song which for blandness alone deserves its present obscurity. But the plea for freedom still rings powerfully, even if in middle class, individualistic terms...
...death: treating it as a new civil rights issue. More than 40 years ago, Austrian Novelist and Playwright Stefan Zweig wrote: "Among the 'rights of man' there is a right which no one can take away, the right to croak when and where one pleases." This bald manifesto might serve as the banner that Miss Mannes marches under...
...fact, when Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration, began to explain more of the truth about the Harvard heating manifesto than Rosovsky cared to bare at Wednesday's press conference, he cut Hall off: "Now Steve, let's not air our dirty laundry in public...
...goes Cox's argument. If it sounds somewhat simplistic or at least unrefined, the problem lies only partly with the retelling. As an initial staking out of a position the argument is at least bold, and it suffices. That, after all, is what one must expect of a manifesto. The trouble with the book is that it manages to cover well over 300 pages without significantly deepening, refining or even making much use of this foundation...