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...principal themes, emphasized similar points, even at the risk of seeming disloyal to fellow Reaganauts. "Our own Administration has been the victim of individuals who haven't had the judgment or integrity to put the public's business above their own selfish interest," he told students at Albion College. "Greed is not a legitimate force in this society...
...characters seem to be caricatures rather than real personalities. General Kangaroo (Hugh Keays-Byrne), for instance, is a one-dimensional fascist, a leader without compassion, love or warmth. He has no traits other than greed and we are left wondering why his devoted cultish followers would ever have taken him seriously...
...recent months federal and local prosecutors have made clear that Wedtech is not a fable of small-business success but a morality tale of outsize greed and corruption and the perversion of good intentions. Wedtech prospered, prosecutors say, as a result of promiscuous bribery of city, state and federal officials and a conspiracy to win government contracts by fraudulently depicting itself as a minority-owned business. Wedtech's rise and fall is more than just another example of New York's current convulsion of corruption; the company's overreaching may have stretched even to the White House. A special prosecutor...
...lowest in a decade. Dartmouth's tuition (not counting room and board) will be $12,474 next year, up from $8,190 five years ago; Stanford's will be $11,880, up from $8,220. Secretary of Education William Bennett charges that such increases result from mismanagement and greed. "Higher education is underaccountable and underproductive," he claims. "No one doubts that there is a lot of fat in some areas...
Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic has all of these. Yet the point of this Tennessee Williams-style southern potboiler is not to shock, but to tell a story of the destructive power of greed, anger, and jealousy--and of the equally destructive power of naivete, truth and love...