Yes and no are also adverbs

Marianne, Art Director of Northwestern University Press, made lithographs as going away presents for myself and Susan Hahn. The quote is from the foreword to the first issue of TriQuarterly. Newman’s manifesto of 1964 has received renewed attention lately. We printed it on the late TriQuarterly To-day blog, and it was picked up by the blogs of a few other magazines, including A Public Space. The thesis is remarkable, not merely for its prescience but for the fact that while most manifestos are preludes to irony, as the drafters ultimately fall tragically short of their aspirations (see Charles Foster Kane), Newman’s foreword actually established the editorial principles that would remain intact for the next forty-five years.