Word: exhortations
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...found her makeup appalling ("Some day I shall take your face and scrub it and show you that it looks much better unbuttered"), and she was always offending the Shavian dietary laws: "I exhort you to remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, and not a confectioner's shop." Some sample instructions...
...Else?" Thomson is different from the usual Fleet Street press lord who goes after power, prestige, a peerage or who, like another transplanted Canadian, Lord Beaverbrook, wants to exhort ("I run the paper purely for the purpose of making propaganda," Press Lord Beaverbrook once said). Thomson expects to earn almost $20 million this year on his $130 million empire. This prospect delights him. "A sound financial front is the most important thing in a newspaper," he said last week. "Why else would you be in the news business? Either it's because you're mad at somebody...
Enraged, Hoffa bristled into Boston last week to exhort Local 25 and excoriate the press. With a glare at reporters, Hoffa roared that the press's spleen might well stem from the fact that in some communities his drivers make more than newsmen. Cried he: "My responsibility is far and beyond some cartoonists or editorial writers, who want to display their high school skills to embarrass you and possibly put you in prison...
AMERICAN industry should find it -L. an opportunity rather than a danger. Do not be afraid of it." Thus did Washington Lawyer and Economist George Ball, an expert on investment abroad, exhort U.S. businessmen to take on a new challenge: the European Common Market. The common market, a vast trading zone of six European countries, will remove trade barriers among participating nations, allow free movement of goods, labor and capital. What worries many a U.S. businessman is that it will also be protected by tariffs that discriminate against outsiders, make it harder for U.S. firms to compete in Europe...
...imaginative flexibility to cope with the challenges of the age. Above all, the book forces the reader to re-examine the foundation and the future of capitalism, not merely as an economic but as an ethical system. As the authors put it: "We cannot [unlike Marx and Engels] exhort them to engage in violence, and to do so without fear because they have nothing to lose but their chains . . . Men who think they already have all the liberty and justice they can expect . . . can only be asked to think again...