Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps no living painter has ever been thrust into such notoriety by a novel as Moreau was by the publication of J.K. Huysmans' manifesto of decadence, A Rebours, in 1884. Moreau was then 58, a Parisian born and bred, praised in the salon, an officer of the Legion of Honor, a mature and respected figure with a strong academic bias. The fictional hero of A Rebours, that absurd purple monster des Esseintes, was described as owning two of his paintings. One was the elaborate Salome Dancing Before Herod, 1876 (see color page...
...company of Portuguese troops led by their field commander has deserted to join Frelimo. The troops, based at Macossa, about 80 km from Vila de Gouveia, Central Mozambique, have drawn up a manifesto which has been sent to the Portuguese High Command in Nampula. The Manifesto tells High Command that the company has joined Frelimo as "the only valid party in this country...
...statement issued last week, Sakharov sorrowfully takes issue with many of the views that the Nobel-prizewinning writer outlined in his apocalyptic "Letter to Soviet Leaders" (TIME, March 11), which summed up his program for the future of Russia. Reflecting dismay among Soviet dissidents over Solzhenitsyn's conservative manifesto, Sakharov strongly disagrees with the writer's "utopian and potentially dangerous proposals...
Percy must have written Lanterns on the Levee knowing he would be perhaps the last person to set down on paper his kind of life and values. As a result the book reads like an elegant manifesto for the old South, including all of the things aristocratic Southerners once held dear. Percy begins the book with lengthy descriptions of the Mississippi Delta country he lived in, its people, and his relatives, as if he could not begin to describe himself until he had first described his setting and background...
...rest is familiar history. Engels used his capitalist lucre to support the firm of Marx & Engels, tireless designers of revolutions, tailors of socialist theory, collaborators on scholarly books and pamphlets, including a long-term bestseller called The Communist Manifesto. The sullen, tobacco-stained genius Karl Marx and the buoyant, optimistic and modest Engels combined to make one of the most influential partnerships of all time. Marx supplied the creative thought, and Engels produced the human evidence, provided the money, and cleaned up Marx's turgid prose for the world to read. Although he was hesitant to admit it, Engels...