Word: capitalisme
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Nothing could be simpler than Spark's subject, Harvey and Effie Gotham's marriage. Harvey is a rich man who doesn't have to work and who spends his abundant leisure time studying the Book of Job, on which he is preparing an essay. The problem of why suffering exists...
Indeed, it is hard to reconcile this lean heavy hitter with memories of the chubby adolescent who came out of Eastern Europe more than a decade ago with an unreliable backhand, a gentle disposition that led her to give away games, and a sweet tooth for capitalism's material...
Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, who looked hale but moved stiffly in the brief conference footage broadcast over national TV, closed the meeting with a short speech calling on the Western democracies to let capitalism and Communism live in "peaceful coexistence." But he warned, "A dangerous test of strength, being imposed...
It was this self-hatred that yielded the program for the destruction of the University. Though the mediation was not merely an excuse--Harvard and ROTC. Harvard and classified research. Harvard as landlord, Harvard as strike breaker--we found no reason to doubt the logic of the syllogism: Smash Capitalism...
Of course we had our reasons. We knew that we were, and would remain, a minority. But more importantly, we assumed that capitalism's power came, as we used to say, from the barrel of the gun: the Vietnamese, the Panthers, and the protestors in University Hall seemed to prove...