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...weapons from Soviet stockpiles and brandishes them? Or Hungary presses revanchist claims to Transylvania? Astonishing developments might not always be as welcome as they were last year. The Administration's warning is deliberately vague. It invites listeners to fill in the blank with their own worst fears. The American manifesto for the '90s is that a specter is haunting Europe, the specter of "unpredictability" and "instability." Those were the words that Bush used, standing beside Kohl at Camp David last month, to identify the enemy that has taken the place of Soviet expansionism...
...fledgling movement does not advocate the dismantling of either socialism or the Communist Party. But it has adopted a manifesto demanding that China end the one-party system, reform the economy, permit freedom of speech, release political prisoners and "liberate the mind and completely eradicate feudal vestiges" -- a reference to lifetime official tenures, nepotism and corruption in the regime...
Such a reaction against impressionism was strong among younger painters of the 1880s. They were led by Georges Seurat, whose Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86, is a manifesto of anti-impressionist aims: a hieratic, pseudoscientific, heavily theorized paean to timelessness, edged with mordant social irony about the mechanization of bourgeois life. For some it made sensuous pleasure look like an insufficient message for art. Impressionism was gaining no new adherents and losing some of its original ones: Sisley had run out of steam by the '80s, and Pissarro had gone over to the younger...
Finally, 30 of us came together on Sept. 9 near Berlin. I knew only a third of them. We worked out our manifesto. Our meeting coincided with the exodus through Hungary and the mounting demonstrations in Leipzig. It became a grass- roots movement. People were copying the manifesto everywhere. The regime could not have been overthrown by a party, only by this kind of popular uprising...
Also noteworthy in the premier issue is a glaring quote from the page four manifesto: "Simply put, no one should come to Harvard with a firm grasp of the truth just to lose it in the quagmire of attitudes present here." In other words, Peninsula will be the voice of those poor, huddled masses of Harvard students who fear a test of faith...