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...time revolutionary in the struggle for black liberation in America." His posts as chairman of the Black House Council and Minister Of Information for the Panthers continually placed him on the FBI's list of "potentially dangerous individuals." In this spirit, Soul On Ice reads much like The Communist Manifesto or The Declaration Of Independence. It is an Afro-American call-to-arms...
...government apparently fears that the Jackson clubs could influence Iranian youth to turn against the regime's fundamentalist dogma. With good reason. "When the regime treats a smile as an anti-Khomeini gesture," notes one former resident of Tehran, "a Michael Jackson tape is more dangerous than the Communist Manifesto...
Walker not only attacks the United States' ties to South Africa but also criticizes the attitudes that have made "people of color" doubt their own value. "Without Commericals" is a taut poem that appeals directly to the reader. Like a revolutionary manifesto, it repeats its message, both exhorting and assuring in one phrase. But for Walker, the enemy is not The White Man: She is perceptive enough to identify cosmetic beauty as oppressive because of the impossible ideals we are told to reach for and admire. Physical beauty has become a commodity we can acquire but at the cost...
...protester, world traveler and Buddhist. Ginsberg's style harks back to the tradition of popular speech, jazz rhythms and strong imagery. The energy never flags, but the quality is wildly uneven. There are love poems that read like high parodies of rest-room scrawl. Howl, once effective as counterculture manifesto, is now an unconvincing historical oddity: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." But Kaddish, about Ginsberg's insane mother, who died in 1956, is a masterpiece of candor and emotional persuasion: "The Charity of her hands stinking with Manhattan, madness, desire to please me, cold...
...considerations," explains Egger. "Prices in real estate became of no concern. Tax benefits were being sold." Decisions in business, Egger points out, "should be based on economics, not on taxes." The overhaul proposed by Treasury, says Tax Scholar Charles McLure, who was a principal draftsman, is "a free-market manifesto." Ronald Reagan is a client...