Word: exploitationism
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He may have carried a big stick in foreign policy, but Teddy Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment was domestic. Curbing the relentless private exploitation of America's natural treasures, especially in the West, he brought millions of acres of land into the public domain, helped by the indomitable Gifford Pinchot (1865...
As a young forester in the U.S. Southwest, Aldo Leopold shot a wolf. Reaching the mortally wounded animal, he recalled in his influential A Sand County Almanac, he watched "a fierce green fire dying in her eyes" and had a change of heart. Discarding the forest-exploitation ideas of his...
O, in short, stands for Oprah--heartfelt, improving and mysteriously able to transform the commercial exploitation of bathos into a unique blend of self-help spirituality, pop feminism and Benjamin Franklin optimism. "You always have the potential to get better," writes Oprah in her introduction. "That, as I see it...
In 1942, Joseph Mitchell (Tucci), a revered New Yorker writer, published an article about Joe Gould (Ian Holm), a Greenwich Village Bohemian who claimed to be writing a history of the world millions of words long. Twenty-two years later, Mitchell admitted that Gould's manuscript, except for a few...
And the true violence of The Ohio State Murders lies in this world of absence. The violence of sexual exploitation, kidnapping and murder are all forms of horror easily understood and condemned, even if they are impossible to describe in terms that do justice to the pain they can create...