Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accept the policies that have brought stagflation. Or we can . . . replace them with a new economics." He was referring to the "Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1976," which he has co-authored with California Representative Augustus Hawkins and which is rapidly becoming a kind of election manifesto for liberal Democrats. The true purpose of last week's hearings was to give national exposure to the legislation...
Total Amnesty. In the summer of 1974 a group of young captains in Barcelona inaugurated the U.M.D. by publishing a manifesto against the military's role in Spanish society. The document attacked "the complete divorce between the real Spain and the totalitarian system of government" that had made the armed forces "the guardian of the interests of the regime." It proposed instead that the armed forces put themselves "exclusively at the service of the people." Specific goals included "the full re-establishment of human rights and democratic freedoms, and total amnesty for citizens who have been punished for defending...
...left wing. The White Paper had warned that unchecked public spending would soon gobble up half of an average wage earner's salary in taxes. But to the left, the report's recipe for reducing spending sounded more like a Tory tract than a Labor manifesto. Said former Overseas Aid Minister Judith Hart: "The real struggle is not between the official opposition and the government, but between the Labor government and the Labor Party...
...runs a sticker, barely legible in tiny print, fixed below an owl's nest in one of Joseph Cornell's boxes. Who could doubt that the white owl staring from its cave of bark is the artist himself, or that the mock prospectus is a kind of manifesto...
Quasi-Warhol. During the play, Allott has issued a kind of quasi-Warhol manifesto that the plastic arts are exhausted and that the truly contemporary artist must orchestrate an "event" out of the materials immediately at hand. In that light, Allott may be seen to have orchestrated the specific mood that precipitated the rape, thus fashioning his own particular happening. On another level, Allott has expressed such acid contempt of his brush-wielding anthropophagi that the rape could conceivably symbolize the crude assault that some sad creature might make on a subject that he is totally incapable of mastering, either...