Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market in the past five years has been scooped up by one buyer: West Germany's Dresdner Bank. And its drive into gold has been pressed by one man, Hans-Joachim Schreiber, 46, who was appointed to the bank's board of directors five years ago. His faith in the metal dates to his youth in postwar Germany, where, he recalls, "some people owed their survival to the possession of a few ounces of gold...
Although these are legitimate fears, we believe that the committee should not be condemned before it is given a chance. True, past administration efforts have not always appeared to be in good faith, but the committee members seem genuinely anxious to try this time...
...best books are parables written out of anger at some inexplicable kink in the collective psyche: blind trust in science and scientists (Cat's Cradle); faith in war as a rational activity (Slaughterhouse-Five). After a lengthy period of mellowed-out serenity (and two mediocre novels, Breakfast of Champions and Slapstick), Vonnegut is mad again. His target in Jailbird is money, specifically the odd systems that people have invented for distributing and withholding...
...weights continually change in response to shifts in morals, social, and cultural attitudes, and even technology." But the protean term is still tempting. It seems the one word that will do to point toward something moribund in a culture, the metastasis of despair that occurs when a society loses faith in its own future, when its energy wanes and dies. It would probably be more narrowly accurate to use words like corrupt or depraved to describe, say, punk rock, or murder in a gas line, but decadent is more popular because it contains a prophecy. To be decadent...
Part one of two parts: the politics of corporate America--or how the politicians traded in their free enterprise articles of faith for the rhetoric of corporate redemption...