Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Other Victorians (1966) Marcus examines the ananymous erotic memoir "My Secret Life." In one scene where a female agricultural worker resists the sexual advances of the local squire, Marcus reads a significant change in social consciousness, the rise of the belief that class privileges should not afford sexual dominion over the persons of social inferiors. He connects this reading to a central theme of his book, the paradox that Victorian morality had a humanizing as well as a repressive side...
...remains Pinto-sized by comparison, with sales of $1.2 billion in 1975, but output of its fast, sporty cars soared to 217,458, from 184,681 the year before. Like Daimler-Benz, BMW did not have to lay off a single worker during the recession and remained profitable, making $16.2 million in 1974. Even little Porsche, which sells a mere 180 cars a week (price range: $9,120 to $26,600), is confident enough to have embarked on a $55 million expansion program...
...hero) in Milan to do some unwitting work for him, and soon they are fleeing Mussolini's police across the countryside of northern Italy. While hiding is a railroad depot they are captured, and the fascist official leaves the pair in a workshed under the guard of two railroad workers while he fetches more help. To Marlow, the workers look sullen and threatening, but Zaleshoff begins loftily addressing the older one as "comrade" and humming obnoxiously. Suddenly he lashes out to knock down the younger worker, while the older guard just stands there and lets them escape. Marlow is confused...
District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America went on strike yesterday against Learning Resources Incorporated (LRI), the company that owns Paperback Booksmith, after contract negotiations broke down Tuesday night, a member of the worker's negotiating committee said yesterday...
...real banker would probably laugh at The Moneychangers, just as would a doctor at Hailey's The Final Diagnosis, an auto worker at Wheels, or a pilot at Airport. Everything is close enough to believability to satisfy the uninitiated, and sensationalized enough, no doubt, to outrage real experts. It's doubtful that all bankers have "disciplined, steely" minds, as Hailey's do, or that single executives actually live in apartments with shaggy rugs and modern furniture and fireplaces and spectacular views of the city below, or that presidents or corporations are all egomaniacs who own private jets. These exaggerations fall...