Word: manifestoes
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...manifesto that appeared in Mexico City in 1961 seemed like the usual bombast from angry young painters out to attract as much attention as they could. In big blue capital letters, it blasted just about everything sacred to the Mexican art world. Damned as academismo were slavish and parochial imitations of Diego Rivera's once-revolutionary social realism. Damned as dehumanized decoration were equally slavish imitations of the abstract styles imported from other lands. "We strive," said the manifesto writers, "for an art that communicates in the clearest and most direct way possible our commitment...
...Cabinet has only two military men, and the Baath party is strongly represented. New Premier Salah El-Bitar, 45, is a former Syrian Foreign Minister and a Baathist with strong sympathies toward Arab unity. A tall, hulking Damascene with dark, brooding eyes and brilliantined hair, he once signed a manifesto denouncing union with Egypt, but later advocated close federal ties...
...letters might have been just an exchange of bombast between a couple of literary bums but for the fact that each man is more than a bit right about the other. Each is touched by genius, each sees literature as a personal manifesto against a hostile world. They are not merely correspondents but confederates...
Says Rafferty: "California leads in school buildings, supplies, equipment, number of years of training for teachers, psychology and methodology and in salary scale. But in the area of subject-matter achievement of its young people, we are not the top state by any means." His manifesto: "The schools exist to teach organized and disciplined subjects. There are too many undisciplined brains running around the world today...
...need be blamed for the Civil War. It was caused, he says, by the extremism of a South that "always seems to have looked over its shoulder-frequently seeing what was not there." His just published The Emancipation Proclamation (Doubleday; $3.50) hopefully suggests that "perhaps" Lincoln's manifesto-100 years old last week-will eventually "give real meaning and purpose to the Declaration of Independence...