Word: manifestoes
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...photograph of a dead woman. "She was 24 years old, married, and had a child of two. She had an abortion, done by her concierge. Voila: dead of septicemia [blood poisoning] because she could not afford $500 for a safe abortion in England. That is why I signed the manifesto, because of this woman and others like...
...those seemingly loveless works that, like virtually the entire catalogue of John Cage, may eventually turn out to be more important as philosophical statement than as musical expression. The odds are good, for example, that it will never be any more popular than Arnold Schoenberg's atonal manifesto of 1912, Pierrot Lunaire; yet it could well rival its historical importance...
There is one time when the plebes can talk. Occasionally, upperclassmen may ask plebes to memorize something or other (say the Communist Manifesto, or Bill Buckley's latest column). At a later meal, they are called upon to recite their lines...
...poorly? In a recent article in the New York Review of Books, Christopher Lasch argues that McGovern fails to make an impact on people because he has not assumed a populist stance. In a recent interview, Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield, authors of the book A Populist Manifesto, took a similar stance. After hearing McGovern on the stump for a week, it is fair to say that this assertion is simply not true. McGovern consistently attacks the Nixon administration for selling out to "special interests" and proceeds to attacks the President for the ITT affair and the Russian grain deal...
...Boggs-after a defeat at the polls and a four-year hitch in the Navy-returned in 1946, and has been there since. Representing an urban and cosmopolitan section of New Orleans, he was not the stereotypical Southern Congressman. Though he joined other Southerners in signing a 1956 manifesto opposing school integration, he dramatically came out in favor of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and three years later voted for the open housing law. Brash and at times arrogant, Boggs had a great talent for booming oratory. He thoroughly enjoyed the clubby conviviality of the Congress, but had a high...