Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fruit Flies. "The book," says Comfort, sounding more and more like a sociologist, "started to be simply a comic novel. I think now it was the manifesto of which The Joy of Sex commences the implementation." To have read Come Out to Play is like having witnessed an apple fall on Sir Isaac Newton's head: a ho-hum incident at the time but noteworthy in hindsight. As a sex book without a single sex scene, it is a tame reminder of how things have changed since 1961. And as the story of a sex clinic conceived before...
...addition to this seminal manifesto, the PBC has published America's Birthday and Voices of the Revolution and has contracts for a total of nine books that "range from scholarly studies of the American Revolution to the issue of concentration of economic power in contemporary America." Almost 1000 radio stations across the country now carry their series. The Voices of '76, and more than 100 TV stations are airing the PBC television series of the same name. The PBC is still preparing "educational materials" that go out to the National Council of Churches, the Campfire Girls and "thousands of libraries...
...even had a trench dug to rest it in so that he could paint the top without having to teeter on a stool. Its tonal contrasts between the green gloom of the trees and the crisp white of the girls' dresses in the bleaching sun are a manifesto of early impressionism...
Vicarious degradation from the godfathers of mercenary humiliation is not "lighthearted havoc" [March 10]. The humble-pie manifesto reads clearly between the lines: 1) stamp out sanity, 2) uphold anarchy, 3) wreak pandemonium, and 4) escape reality...
Lighthearted Havoc. Many of the pientrepreneurs were inspired, and some actually franchised, by Manhattan-based Pie-Kill Unlimited, which has twelve operatives, has been in business for a year, and claims a face count of 178. Pie-Kill's manifesto, composed by Founder Rex Weiner, a pastry-faced 24-year-old, reads as if it had been collectively written by P.O. Wodehouse, James Bond and the Three Stooges. "Our high duty," it announces, "is to 1) stamp out pomposity; 2) uphold the virtues of surprise, randomness and chaos; 3) wreak lighthearted havoc whenever and wherever possible...