Word: manifestoes
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...large part, Soviet Russia is a monument to Karl Marx. It was Marx's Communist Manifesto, written with Frederick Engels in 1848, that became the blueprint for the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Marxist doctrine still guides Russia today. From Lenin to Khrushchev, Russia's Communist leaders have placed the full-bearded German Jew high on the honor roll of their country's heroes. But no man is less deserving of that dubious distinction-an irony of history recalled this week with publication of a slender book, Marx vs. Russia (Frederick Ungar Publishing...
...wine, the Communist Manifesto, and thou...
Police brutality, which Parisians have just gotten around to protesting, is by now beside the point. If one re-reads the Sarte Beauvoir manifesto, it sounds curiously out of date. The question now is whether the police can rally from their torpor long enough to prevent chaos. (Ironically, at the same time that police impotence has made things easier for the OAS, the Organization's popular support is rumored to be falling off. It is partly for this reason that the hope of a future putsch has been abandoned, and the campaign of allout violence adopted...
...House, Mills displayed an aptitude for financial facts and figures, earned appointment to the Ways and Means Committee and, in 1958, became its chairman. He was then considered a prime favorite to succeed Speaker Sam Rayburn, even though he had signed a widely publicized Southern Manifesto of white supremacy, which eventually cost him the favor of Northern Democrats. But his performance as chairman of Ways and Means has not lived up to its promise. A naturally cautious, conciliatory man, Mills let his committee dawdle endlessly over legislation, to the point that it was nicknamed the "No Ways...
...identifying themselves historically with Spartacus and his slave revolt; the S.A.O. officers see themselves as Roman legionnaires holding off the Red barbarians on the marches of empire and sending back semaphore messages warning Rome?or rather, Paris?to "beware of the anger of the Legions!" A typical S.A.O. manifesto recalls French soldiers fallen in colonial wars: "Our dreams are full of their death, and often at night we hear the desperate cries of the colonial peoples whom we were forced to abandon as our departing boats tore the last French flag from their gaze. The thought of our Tricolor, having...