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Modern Times by Paul Johnson (1983). The former editor of Britain's New Statesman has the crust and style to pinpoint evil in an age of moral relativism, and he is not talking about Gordon Gekko's affirmative views on a greedy decade. The villains are the tyrants of both the left and the right who have perpetrated outrages in the name of the modern secular state...
...Edelman offered $100,000 to any student who could find a mismanaged company for the professor to chew up. Columbia nixed the offer, but Edelman's image as a buccaneer flourished. That same year he served as a role model for the fiendishly greedy Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. "I hunched in my seat as I watched that movie," says Edelman. "I've never committed any crimes...
Doing flawless interpretations of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, players are giving new meaning to the term "Greed is good." They now charge money to sign autographs...
Greed is good. Or at least that's what wheeler-dealer Gordon Gekko told a stockholders' meeting in the movie Wall Street. Stephen Koepp, the editor of our Business section, is not so categorical. This week's cover stories on the biggest takeover battle in U.S. history gave him a chance to explore an important question: Is the lust for bigger and bigger deals harming the U.S. economy? Says he: "A healthy appetite for profits is what makes capitalism work. But at these levels, is it just a power game, in which money is a means of keeping score...
...Paper and Marshall Field. It is a display that would make many of his corporate victims cringe, especially the many who lost their jobs when companies were restructured as a result. Yet Icahn's headquarters is no temple to fast money, like the vaulted office of the reptilian Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street. Instead, it serves as a model for the unglamorous way he thinks business should be conducted. The only frill in his office is a Persian rug. Icahn manages his frenetic investment ventures with a staff of just eight, who scurry about their nondescript cluster...