Word: northrop
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...million bribe in Honduras to get a banana export tax reduced, and Gulf Oil conceded making illegal contributions of $4 million to South Korea's ruling political party. Last week the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations took up the most eye-opening case of all, that of Northrop Corp., the Los Angeles-based aerospace giant, which has a remarkable record of selling warplanes to foreign governments. Its tiny, efficient F-5 Freedom Fighter is flying in 17 countries; Chairman and President Thomas V. Jones foresees a global market for 2,500 Cobra II fighters, priced at $4 million...
...subcommittee amassed a wealth of information about payments that Northrop made overseas. Much of the information came from a 530-page report prepared by Northrop's auditors, Ernst & Ernst, which started to investigate to comply with a consent decree that settled a Securities and Exchange Commission suit against Northrop. In their testimony, Jones and Executive Committee Chief Richard Millar sought to justify most of the payments as legitimate. In many cases they failed to convince skeptical Senators, who expect similar revelations from other companies. One danger is that in the public view, innocent multinationals will be clobbered along with...
...brushed its aura and made the rabbit the symbol of his whole slick fantasy world. But when you're inventing fantasy to entertain your children during a long, boring car trip you leave out the details that enrapture the slavering American male. You retrograde modern romance, back to Northrop Frye's original "love and adventure" formula, away from modern "lust and bloodlust." And you even leave out most of the "love," to concentrate on your heroes-intrepid rabbits surviving against all obstacles. Richard Adams wrote that fantasy and called it Watership Down: it won both British awards for children...
...little white-haired man, like Northrop Frye, sees a decline in imaginative morals these days. He's seen a lot of suffering and says the two world wars have had a "very brutalizing effect." He's tried to express his loves and his worries, and at the least, has entertained people. Right now he's doing the things he likes to do, because he has the money. And he's getting new ideas all the time...
There's a lot more to Frye's criticism; this is just a rough sketch. His elegantly straight-forward approach and his vast knowledge of literature is something you will have to experience in person. Perhaps the real beauty of Northrop Frye is that be can't be classified. As he says, "those who are incapable of distinguishing between a recognition of archetypes and a Procrustean methodology which forces everything into a prefabricated scheme would be well advised to leave the whole question alone." Since Frye is something of an archetype himself, maybe it's better to let him make...