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There is much about Hellman to attack--her lies, her opportunism, her greed. She is big game for a biographer. But Hellman kept her friends--including lovers whom she treated capriciously--over decades, and almost anyone who comments on her speaks of her vitality and her energy. So Mellen's repeated harping on minor points gives her book a rancid quality. Hellman's ugliness, sexual vamping and minor instances of social cowardice are all pounced on and recounted. In her introduction Mellen says that at times, when confronted with a problem, she would ask herself, "What would Lily...
Family has played a darker part in the Freemen drama as well, in the form of the twisted dynamic of the Clark clan, in which land, pride, stubbornness, greed and altruism all figure. Four Clarks are in the "Justus Township" compound: Emmett, 67, his brother Ralph, 65, Ralph's son Edwin, 45, and Edwin's son Casey, 22. But they no longer have legal title to the 960-acre farm occupied by the Freemen--or to some 4,000 adjacent acres once owned by Ralph, Emmett and Edwin. Mortgages on that land were foreclosed after the Clarks stopped making payments...
...Cooper must defend himself against a courtroom full of slickly dressed, high-priced, big-city lawyers. In It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey learns that without his good heart and small-town values, the whole town of Bedford Falls would have fallen to the corrupt greed of Mr. Potter...
...protesters held signs reading "Harvard, Keep Your Hands off PBH" and "Student Need, Not Harvard Greed," Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 accused University leaders of "mooning" students...
Classmates expressed concern about decadent sexual mores, the Republican right, the poor quality of education and racial prejudice. We also worried about overpopulation, unemployment, health care, the discrepancy between rich and poor, the environment, poverty, greed and selfishness, balancing the budget, crime, single-issue voters and immigration...