Word: faustian
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...feel Harvard has seriously broken faith with my father," said John S. Stillman '40. "It's as though one of President Bok's Faustian nightmares, the subject of his Commencement address, had come true...
...feel Harvard has seriously broken faith with my father," said John S. Stillman '40. "It's as though one of President Bok's Faustian nightmares, the subject of his Commencement address, had come true...
...middle passage in which he fritters away critical and popular esteem while pursuing the good life in Paris, the Riviera and, above all, Klosters, the Swiss ski resort that ^ he and the beautiful, occasionally talented people he drew to him made famous. The ending even produces the kind of Faustian moral that goes down well in popular fiction: the hero achieves a full measure of worldly success but at the cost of his artistic soul...
...drug trade is a two-way street. The cocaine flows from mostly Third World producers to the U.S. and other industrialized nations, but the chemicals and other materials needed to turn coca leaves into cocaine flow from the industrialized nations to the Third World. By participating in this Faustian technology transfer, the drug-consumer nations are, in effect, providing vital raw ingredients for the scourge that bedevils them and that they often blame exclusively on coke-producing countries. "Look at all this equipment," said a Colombian police commander last week, surveying the ruins of a coke lab. "It's almost...
...clamor for Stroessner's fall. In the 50 years preceding his ascent to power, the country endured civil wars, coups and more than 30 shaky presidencies. If curtailment of fundamental freedoms was the price for political and economic stability, most citizens were willing to buy into the Faustian bargain. During most of Stroessner's rule, Paraguay maintained a rate of economic growth unusual for Latin America...