Word: manifestoes
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...manifesto rang with a tone of bitter disappointment. "We are growing intellectually passive," it said. "Much of our time is squandered in academic exercises from which we learn little...
...Manifesto Destiny. Although it seems to have blossomed suddenly, the kinetic kraze has been a long time germinating. As early as 1910, the Italian futurists wanted to "renew art by seeking the style of movement" and proclaimed a racing automobile more beautiful than the Winged Victory. Dadaist Marcel Du-champ set a bicycle wheel atop a stool in 1913 and called it Mobile. The Russian constructivists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner issued a manifesto in 1920 proclaiming their freedom "from the 1,000-year-old error of art, originating in Egypt, that only static rhythms can be its elements...
...Kenneth Galbraith seems almost to be running the government singlehandedly), and there are bits of information about the less exalted that illustrate just how closely Washington was tied to Cambridge for those three years. When, at the time of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Revolutionary Council needed a manifesto of its intention for a non-Communist Cuba, John Planck, former professor of Government, and William Barnes, assistant dean of the Law School, were asked to provide suggestions. When a dangerously hard-line Berlin policy seemed to be taking hold in 1961, a Harvard all-star team moved...
...replacing the French." The escalation of the war has served to intensify this split between Saigon and the countryside. American soldiers on leave spend thousands of dollars daily in the city, while the fields are constantly despoiled by battles and bombings. Red China, to fan the flames, issued a manifesto in September which specifically described the "war of liberation" as a revolt of the agrarian classes against the cities which dominate them. Ky has issued several statements about reform in South Vietnam, but no action has been taken. Again according to Reston, "the Vietnamese leaders are willing neither to take...
...Outcry. Gus Hall, the party's top functionary, hailed the Supreme Court's decision as "a blow against the longest legal vendetta in American history." He said that the party would resume full-scale political activity, call a national convention, issue a manifesto for the first time since 1950, and run candidates for Congress next year. However, with hollow coffers and a membership estimated at less than 10,000, down from an alltime peak of 80,000 in 1944, the party is too feeble to make meaningful use of its reprieve...