Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." So begins an early (1643) manifesto of Harvard's aims; in those days, it was a rare graduate indeed who did not take to the pulpit once his sheepskin was secured...
...date, is already just such a highbrow blockbuster. This erudite yet passionate treatise on the danger of nuclear war attracted widespread attention when it first appeared two months ago in three successive issues of The New Yorker, where Schell is a staff writer. The series immediately became the principal manifesto for advocates of a nuclear-arms freeze, as well as an inspiration for numerous speeches, lectures, editorials and sermons. Alfred A. Knopf has already ordered a large second printing of The Fate of the Earth and plans to have 75,000 copies on sale around the country...
...show of force took place at a meeting of 800 delegates, who had gathered to plan a massive anti-nuclear demonstration to coincide with President Reagan's visit to Bonn on June 10. Representatives of the Greens, a coalition of West German environmental groups, demanded that the manifesto outlining the demonstration's purpose also criticize the arms buildup in the Soviet Union and not concentrate solely on the U.S. But the Greens were repeatedly shouted down by a loud contingent of Communists and sympathizers. Complained exiled East German Economist Rudolf Bahro, a leading member of the Greens, before...
Unlike the short skirts of the 1960s, the new minis are not political or sexual proclamations. For many a dashing lass in that pioneering wave, the A-line mini was a kind of manifesto at the feminist barricades. The first cutoff skirts of Great Britain's Mary Quant, recalls Fashion Writer Suzy Menkes in the London Times, "were conceived as a rejection of everything that existing fashion stood for." They were also "an explicit sexual statement. Today's minis are far less predatory, and when they are worn over thick tights with leg warmers and big sweaters, they...
...every important Democrat, though, is afflicted with intellectual paralysis. A growing consensus of Congressional Democrats, journalists, and scholars are uniting around comprehensive policy proposals pragmatically tailored to the demands of the times. Celebrated in a recent Esquire article as "the neoliberals," they take as their manifesto Sen. Paul Tsongas's The Road From Here and point to Sen. Gary Hart as a possible standard-bearer in the 1984 presidential race. These two youthful and appealing gentlemen, joined by junior senators such as New Jersey's Bill Bradley, representatives like Colorado's Timothy Wirth and Missouri's Richard Gephardt, and heavy...