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...stuck to often dull and difficult jobs (nobody told us we should be dropping out, doing our own thing, and fulfilling our own needs), cared for our aging parents and paid into Social Security for 30 years. Now in our golden years, we are finding ourselves accused of greed and selfishness. What a deal, indeed...
...Mariners "was the only ballplayer I talked to this spring who never mentioned money." Angell's altered view on the Summer Game becomes acutely clear in the pages and pages of harangues against the owners. By no means a visionary, Angell merely joins a growing chorus when he diagnoses greed as the sickness plaguing the game...
...must all figure this program of greed and reaction at every turn. Only by raising voices of protest against all injustice and malevolence and misguidedness will the nation return to its true ideals. At the polls in November and through the mounting criticism of the Administration, we can revive those American dreams worth fulfilling, and awaken from the bastard dream of Reaganism...
...celebrity. We have lost him, and we will lose more and more like him, as the subtle, ancient bonds of imagination and appreciation and expert knowledge that have connected each true fan to each player of this beautiful and difficult sport become frayed or severed by distraction or greed...
...Bakker's faith in God and man, though reduced to the proportions of cars and boats, is not based on greed. Like the cargo cults, the South Sea islanders who worshipped the army transport planes that bought unimaginable riches of K-rations and surplus hardware, the Bakkers grasp best the material manifestations of the divine. Welfare checks number not among such miracles: "Why can't man throw money at his problems? Because God wants things to be in accord with His will... We're tired of all the hype. We want to go back to old foundations." When God speaks...