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...about bound-foot hobblers into a billion ears. Because Mao had said that the great mass of poor farmers were in reality pining to join collectives, "to rid themselves of their poverty," local committees proclaimed class war against "newly rich peasants and counterrevolutionaries" who had sprung up by "spontaneous capitalist influence" after Mao's original land redistributions...
...sometimes blue) flannel suit who seems little different from the hundreds of other commuters who ride the 8:09 (or sometimes the 8:17) from Greenwich, Con., to Manhattan every weekday. But George Keith Funston is a man with a mission; he wants to make every American a capitalist. His method: persuade every American who can afford it to buy stock in: corporations, thus share in the amazing yet steady growth of the American economy...
Cork, Author Hawley has a knowing way with business lingo. While Cash and Lory's vapid love scenes tax patience as well as belief, the vitality of Cash McCall rests in its forceful portrait of a venture capitalist who is as remote from a backslapping booster as Reinhold Niebuhr is from Norman Vincent Peale...
Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia is the kind of man who has made capitalist a nasty word in India. Dalmia said as much himself a few years ago. "I feel that from the age of twelve to these 57 years of my life, I have been accumulating the sins of wealth and palaces. I feel as if I had sucked the blood of the poor in establishing the big name of Dalmia...
...Stupid Is the Enemy? The book is full of comic businessmen, who are not only capitalist bloodsuckers, but suckers for the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale. The saddest of them is a tycoon named Henry J. Baxter, who dies hilariously, falling down on the path to his $3,000,000 private bomb shelter because he just would not believe that the Russians developed the H-bomb for the benefit of mankind. Other characters in Fast's America are the clear-eyed, noble, tragic men who populate the bulging political prisons. If there is one thing Author Fast knows...