Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit, newspaper unions have long been uneasily aware of the anti-union sentiments of Free Press Publisher John S. Knight, who also has papers in Akron, Charlotte, N.C., and Miami. It is Knight's avowed policy to de-unionize his plants, a process he began with the Miami Herald. When the pressmen's contract expired in 1961, Knight refused to renew it; the Herald's presses have since rolled without benefit of union help...
...Knight's fellow publishers in Detroit were in total sympathy with his approach. The Detroit Newspaper Publishers' Association, which was formed in 1945, now regards a strike against one paper as a strike against all. The publishers hired as negotiator one Robert C. Butz, a man who had earned a reputation as a tough antilabor type. The Detroit publishers also declared their intention "to tighten controls in contracts"-in short, to eliminate union work practices, such as the paid 15-minute washup, that management considered extravagant...
...Nothing is ever at random in art," he said. "The persona begins with the name." And while he warned that "Wilson Knight is perhaps over-ingenious" in his derivations, he said that Arnold, who objected to Ruskin's remarks on Ophelia's name, "has no light to throw on Shakespeare and very little sweetness...
Toronto's usually crusty Royal York hotel has hired leotard-clad waitresses to serve customers in a new "Black Knight" room, and Quebec's courtly Chateau Frontenac has replaced some Victorian parlors with a smart new cocktail lounge. Is that any way to run a railroad? It seems to be, because these two changes are symbolic of a great transformation that is sweeping the owner of the hotels: the Canadian Pacific Railway...
...hero and heroine are people to whom nothing happens. His Sisters exist in a sad purgatory of might-have-beens and never-will-bes. Masha (Kim Stanley), married at 18 to a bureaucratic clod, alternately tongue-lashes him as a clownish bore and lapses broodily into tears. Irina (Shirley Knight) has made a hysterical religion of work. Olga (Geraldine Page) is a kind of involuntary nun of duty, serving joylessly as the local school headmistress. The cultured, well-educated sisters are too weak to demand life on their own terms, too proud to beg for it, and too honorable...