Word: manifestoes
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...worked as a librarian and for the first time he sensed himself a proletarian. "I stayed in . . . a little room which held seven other peopie," he said. "I used to have to warn people on each side of me when I wanted to turn over . . ." He read the Communist Manifesto...
Intellectually and morally frustrated, looking for a creed, he read the entire Socialist writings of Sidney & Beatrice Webb, discarded them as unpractical. One of his young Columbia friends put a copy of the Communist Manifesto in his hands. To Chambers, it was an awakening...
...acknowledged leader of the family, died when the train he was riding ran into a carload of dynamite; Lee and Jake have never traveled together since. But Jake and Lee went on to fight with drama critics, bar them from theaters, and are said to have issued a manifesto that they wanted to be called "the Messrs. Shubert," not "Jake...
James Bryant Conant's first three books, written when he was a Harvard professor, were chemistry texts. His fourth was a wartime manifesto; his fifth an essay on the teaching of science. Last week, at 55, Harvard's President Conant published his sixth-and for the first time got around to a full-dress treatment of the subject that has been most on his mind the past 15 years: education, and what's wrong with it. Readers of Education in a Divided World (Harvard University Press; $3) will find it a relentlessly rational but occasionally sprightly discussion...
Said its staff-written manifesto this week...