Word: journals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impulse to hold Orwell's coat while sending his ghost out to battle now seems pandemic. A writer in the liberal Roman Catholic journal Commonweal proclaims: "Orwell, if he were alive today, would make a worthy opponent for the multinational corporation. He could have made an idea and a book on 'organization man' stand up and sing." The conservative National Review concludes an essay on Orwell with cosmic theatrics: "The forces of darkness have huge armies, a bigger and better arsenal, liberation movements, and the whores' allegiance. The forces of light have Orwell on their side...
...sales have surged, so have profits. A Wall Street Journal survey of 506 major companies found that earnings were up 29% in the July-September quarter, compared with the same period a year ago. Some of the most dramatic improvements came in several industries hit hard by the recession. Profits jumped 44% in the forest-products business, 58% for rubber companies and 93% for airlines. The auto industry had the most stunning turnaround of all. After losing $187 million in 1982's third quarter, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler earned $1.2 billion in that period...
...HOUSE seminars to discuss the issues in South Africa. Three of these seminars have already taken place, and the fourth will be held in Leverett House. He plans to reach beyond the Harvard community as well, through speeches he will give all over the United States and by publishing journal articles...
Indeed, the press was by no means of one like mind on the blackout. "Rather than mount ing a constitutional soapbox," said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "the press might better spend its time contemplating why it was not informed and in vited." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat volunteered a blunt explanation: "... the television networks' antidefense bias." Declared conservative Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan: "If senior U.S. commanders running this operation harbor a deep distrust of the American press, theirs is not an unmerited contempt...
...Trotta of CBS: "Viet Nam was a real war for real correspondents. This is ridiculous, to see the press becoming part of the main story. Why should anyone expect the U.S. military to take 400 reporters with them on an invasion?" Commented Jim Minter, executive editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "A military operation like this is not the World Series...