Volume 11, Number 11 · December 19, 1968
Letter from London: The Demo
By Mary McCarthy
It was very English to call it 'the Demo,' and no wonder the pet name stuck, conjuring up a specter of 'demos,' the people (sometimes pejorative), but on the other hand 'democracy' (good), which withstood the test of the demonstration. Small family-style states are fond of making up diminutives, whose effect is to diminish, domesticate; compare 'the telly' to big gross American 'TV.' Yet the peculiar fact about the October 27 dual march was that it was organized and directed by aliens in competition with each other: Tariq Ali, a young mustached Pakistani, leading the way to Downing Street, and Abhimanya Manchanda, a middle-aged clean-shaven Indian, to Grosvenor Square.
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