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...explain and justify its workings. The intellectual center of Afrikanerdom is the University of Stellenbosch, just outside Cape Town, and Stellenbosch is in turmoil. Not only are the students increasingly disaffected (see box), but 27 senior academics recently resigned in protest from the National Party and issued a manifesto demanding abolition of all "residuals of apartheid." When the Cape Town Nationalist newspaper Die Burger dismissed the gesture as "trivial" because there were only 27 protesters in a faculty of more than 700, an additional 301 promptly signed the manifesto and promised that more would soon add their signatures...
...desk and began plowing. Eight hours later I was finished, my hair snow white and my heartbeat a little erratic but otherwise none the worse for wear. Even though I had perused only a small portion of the work, I felt ready to bang out an intellectual manifesto for anthology addicts...
...great slogans. "This Bud's for you." "When you say Budweiser, you've said it all." Powerful words for determined people. Their latest. slogan, though, tops them all: "I pledge allegiance to the King of Beers." This was exactly what I was looking for, a brew with a political manifesto to back...
STELLA HAS TWO things on his agenda. The first is to provide his own manifesto: the ringing intellectual statement that will enable the heiress who can afford a Stella to explain to her Mount Holyoke-educated friends what those lines and curves are all about. At one time, a decent knowledge of classical mythology and the Bible was enough to understand what a painter was up to. Today, even an encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary art can fail to inform the art-hungry heiress what her new Abstract Expressionist masterpiece is supposed to express...
...says, a "member" (whatever that means) of the new Center of Press, Politics and Public Policy. This book was not intended to be and never has been held out to be a "manifesto" of the new Center, as Cohen alleges. The research was done under a grant given to the Institute of Politics in 1982, long before the Center was anything more than a name on a prospectus. I was flattered that at the opening of the Press Center this fall, Impact was highlighted as the kind of research which the Center could produce...