Word: greed
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...enlivened by the radio broadcasts of William T. Evjue, founder and publisher of the Capital Times and an aging veteran of the Progressive Era. For me the most memorable of his fulminations came during the Christmas season, when he thundered against the crass commercialization perpetrated by fat-cat corporate greed--followed immediately by his observation that a subscription to the Capital Times would make a splendid holiday gift...
...works and breathes like a real movie, with characters worthy of our affection and deepest suspicions. For at the heart of the drama is Rice's fascinated ambivalence toward the prototype couple of criminal celebrity and toward the culture that needs them to play out fantasies of success, overreaching greed, the instructive death at an early...
...Time last week, that image didn't square with the idealistic, spiritual man and devoted father they knew. "Jim's whole life has been a commitment to the U.S. government and to his job," said his father Marvin, a retired Air Force master sergeant living near Eugene, Oregon. "Greed?" asked brother Robert. "That...
...Greed and lust for power by the political parties have deterred serious consideration of campaign-finance reform [NATION, Nov. 11]. It is time to stop the rhetoric and reduce the role of special-interest money in politics. Meaningful campaign reform will help mend our broken democracy; out-of-control money-power moves us closer to being a plutocracy. The most thoughtful and eloquent promoter of campaign-finance reform is retiring New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. Come January 1997, one of the best things President Clinton could do would be to appoint Bradley to head a bipartisan commission to come...
...sauce have been scraped from the bottom of the bowl and the last scraps of turkey have been gobbled up. A word to Harvard Square retailers: forget about the red and green lights until Monday, at least. Then we'll be more likely to heed the annual call of greed...