Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long gullibility about Soviet Russia. Two prisoners invent a fantasy about a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt to Moscow's Butyrki Prison, just after the war. Inmates are washed in "Lilac Fairy" soap, offered wigs to cover their shaved heads. Their cells are temporarily transformed into elegant salons with foreign magazines on their coffee tables. When Mrs. Roosevelt picks out at random a man and asks what he is being punished for, the prison governor replies that he was a Gestapo agent who burned down a Russian village, raped Russian girls and murdered innumerable Russian babies. "Wasn't he sentenced...
...resources of that difficult, plastic language. Ivan Denisovich's speech is essentially free of foreign-derived words, as is the entire book. One of the prisoner-scientists in The First Circle insists on attempting what he calls "plain speech," in which non-Russian words are banished, even if puzzling archaisms must be substituted. For example, he replaces the Latin-root word kapitalizm with the old Russian word for usury, tolstosumstvo (literally, "moneybaggism"). Solzhenitsyn himself has proposed that Russian be purified in this way. His strongly held views on language not only contribute great power and control to his writing...
...Olimpieri is obviously justified," said Kazin, "but the Divinity School's appeal to higher conscience is a bit too individually oriented. The war and American foreign policy are unjust, and everyone should be resisting...
...first time in three years, foreign companies outperformed the 500 leading U.S. firms in the growth rate of sales. The combined sales of the 200 were up 8.3% in 1967, down from the previous year's 9.5% but still ahead of the 500 U.S. companies, whose sales increase as a group was 7.9%. The profit picture was even more startling. Earnings of the 200 went up by 6.7%, compared with 1966's paltry 0.7% increase over 1965 and in sharp contrast with a 3.1% decrease in earnings...
...most significant trends reflected in the latest foreign directory is the onrush of Japanese companies. In 1967 they were out in front with the biggest sales increases of all national groups. The 38 Japanese firms that appeared on both the 1966 and 1967 lists had a 23.7% growth in sales. Meanwhile, five additional Japanese firms made the grade, joining FORTUNE'S 200 for the first time. Japan's participation in the 200 group is now 43, second only to Britain...