Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troops who have been bivouacked in the school's dormitories since 1968. Last week peasants complaining that they had been maltreated during the Cultural Revolution took part in sit-ins outside government offices in the capital. A poster signed by Qiu Shui, a writer for the radical underground journal Tansuo (Exploration), appeared on Peking's "Democracy Wall," denouncing Hua for "interference" with China's judicial procedures. The poster attacked Hua's statement that Mao Tse-tung's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing) and the other members of the Gang of Four would...
...could buy $10,000 worth of stock with just $1,000. Many thousands did, lured into the market by boosters like John J. Raskob, the stenographer turned entrepreneur who built the Empire State Building. "Everyone ought to be rich," he wrote in an exuberant Ladies' Home Journal article; anyone who could invest $15 a month, he declared, could eventually reap a profit of $80,000. A Harvard behavioral psychologist named John Watson even found therapeutic value in speculation. "Sex has become so free and abundant," he theorized, "that it no longer provides the thrill it once did." Gambling...
...editor's column) to intensely personal (writes Essence's editor in chief Marcia Ann Gillespie: "I did not stand up for my rights as a black person in America to be told that I have to sit down because I'm a woman"). Ladies' Home Journal has the most glamorous contributor in Senator Edward Kennedy. Also the most platitudinous: "[The ERA] will give meaning and vitality to the principles of social justice, economic rights and political equality...
After the Journal reported the press conference, general student interest shifted from the harassment issue to Newman's proposal that police patrol the dormitories, Simoneau said...
Adverse publicity was also the students' first concern, Cynthia L. Simoneau, associate editor of the URI Cigar, said yesterday. She said residents of Coddington Hall, the victims' dormitory, organized a press conference to say the Journal had misquoted them on the extent of sexual harassment at the university...