Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high a moral opinion of itself and too low a regard for the morals of others. Writer-Activist Jack Newfield, who wrote approvingly of the exclusive radicals of the '60s in his book A Prophetic Minority, takes an altered view in a recently published sequel, A Populist Manifesto, co-authored by Jeff Greenfield, a former Robert Kennedy aide. The Manifesto argues that reform is possible only if poor or near-poor blacks and whites are brought together on economic issues that affect both: tax reform, consumer protection, free medical care for everybody. Earlier, Senator Fred Harris had written...
...doubt he did enrage manifesto writers and other sincere activists. In his passion to clarify, he could see both sides of almost every question. If he were alive today, according to Jones, he would be reminding antiwar demonstrators about Viet Cong atrocities...
...that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum." So said Oldenburg in a celebrated manifesto written in 1961, which came to be interpreted as one of the charter documents of Pop art. But the museum, like the kraken, envelops even those who defy it. Oldenburg, at 43, is one of the most avidly collected artists in America. The reasons have little to do with the Pop ballyhoo of the early '60s; firmly independent of movements, he has been trying for the past six years to get clear of the narrow...
Poor rugged-individualist Schrag! A nasty fate is in store. Before his manifesto has time to dry, all those despised WASP liberals will be lining up to sign their plastic John Hancocks...
...most talented and promising black poets. She is also one of the most visible, not only because she is beautiful but because she is a shrewd and energetic propagandist. In this interim autobiography, both poet and propagandist underscore that point about black love and happiness. Part memoir and part manifesto, it is a plainspoken, lively, provocative, confusing book...