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...Communist Manifesto, Marx writes that "united action, of the leading civilized countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat." The current Soviet government expands upon the same thesis in one of its many tirades against Yugoslavia contained in its draft of the new Com-Party Program...
...Good Bad Boys. A generation or two of high school and college students, particularly those who have at least a sneering acquaintance with the Ivy League, still see in Catcher their hymn, their epic, their Treasury of Humor, and their manifesto against the world. A decade after first publication, the book still sells 250,000 copies a year in the U.S. Sociologist David Riesman assigns Catcher in his Harvard course on Character and Social Structure in the U.S., perhaps because every campus has its lonely crowd of imitation Holdens?doomed wearers of raincoats-in-December, who rehearse faithfully their Caulfield...
...office, and said he would be arrested when he returned from his tour of the Far East on a friendly, let's-trade visit in Red China. Led by crusty old (69) War Minister Odylio Denys (who once said "Politics is for politicians"), the brass issued a formal manifesto: Goulart (see box) was a demagogue, a fellow traveler and unacceptable. He had shown his clear sympathies in Red China, "exalting the success of peoples' communes. As President, Goulart would become an incentive to all those who want to see the country fall into chaos, anarchy and civil strife...
South Korea's new military rulers are zealously puritanical men. Last week the generals issued a 74-point manifesto calling for "voluntary reform" of a whole host of questionable habits, ranging from failure to pay taxes to being late for appointments...
Nothing Top-Loftical. Whitman was a great, .puffing manifesto writer, a dogmatist of the "I." In view of this, it is odd that in the most personal of all art forms, the private letter, Whitman should be rather closemouthed. He disdained "top-loftical" correspondence and "fancy words," so that there is a good deal of all-too-plain prose about the Washington weather, small sums of money, and "good grub" at his boardinghouse. The reason for his reticence seems to be that when the poet's private emotions were most powerfully involved, convention made him rein in his rhetoric...