Word: cumberlandism
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...real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances . . . Attending the funeral of a father, how little reason soever he had to love him, could not be pleasant...
...fill the gap by buying an ownership stake in struggling companies. They will back just about any kind of business that shows a potential for making profits; Narragansett Capital Corp. of Providence, R.I., is now bankrolling ventures in cable television, soft-drink bottling and women's overcoats, while Cumberland Associates of Manhattan is investing in real estate and ice cream-making firms. In return for his money, the venture capitalist gets a piece of what he hopes will become the next Xerox...
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...glitter in such a man's eyes can make it difficult to get a clear look at him, but McPhee had the happy notion of confronting Brower with three of his ideological enemies on threatened terrain-Glacier Peak Wilderness in the state of Washington, Georgia's Cumberland Island and finally, on a raft trip down the Colorado River. In the process Brower and his antagonists are revealed as subtly and convincingly as they would be in a good novel. The book settles nothing, but it shows clearly where some of the fault lines lie in the environmental impasse...
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