Word: exhortations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neuharth is perhaps the highest-paid newspaper executive in the country ($1,160,000 in salary, benefits and stock options last year) and is currently finishing his second one-year term as president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. He has used his ANPA position to exhort fellow journalists to defend the beleaguered First Amendment and to hire more women and minorities. These are heartfelt concerns, but Neuharth's passionate pursuit of them is constantly put to use in his crusade to recast Gannett's image. The company trumpets its commitment to journalistic freedom and excellence in expensive...
...their part, the peasants treated their admirers with skepticism, often jeering at the intellectuals who came to extol their virtues, explain their plight to them and exhort them to action. The peasants were equally skeptical in their reaction to yet another set of admirers, the Bolsheviks, who set out to collectivize the country's cultivated land, most of which had been owned by the peasantry on the eve of the Revolution. Many of the peasants pictured in The Russian Empire no doubt became victims of the enforced collectivization of 1929, whose mass deportations and man-made famine cost some...