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...Coal Rush, now practically a permanent way of life, will continue, Caudill assumes, as long as greed coexists with need-i.e., an energy crisis...
Defiant Dilemma. In fact, he offers no answers to this defiant dilemma. But he regards Appalachia as a microcosm of America. Unless deterioration can be stopped here, we will have proved ourselves an ungoverning and ungovernable people. If greed-and-need continues to dictate, Caudill predicts, strip mines will next "demolish the West as a viable ecosystem...
...place to be in Cambridge is in one of their long pews. Tonight they will run John Ford's autumn masterpiece The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin) at 7:30. Sunday night they will run Von Stroheim's chopped up but still incomparable Greed. There are those who think it is the greatest movie ever made. Or would have been if the front office hadn't gotten its hands...
...first major shock was the disproportionate number of young blacks with college degrees who were unemployed and turning to alcohol and drugs. It was also obvious that the arrogance and greed of the white community remained largely unchanged. My wife, who happens to be white, was able to observe some of this firsthand. There was a prevailing hostility toward blacks, but what was most shocking was the automatic assumption by whites that all other whites shared this hostility. What has been harder for my wife to accept is the hostility of the black community toward her. I'm beginning...
...Greed. This kind of self-absorption has stirred research into narcissism. The emphasis on it in psychoanalysis, says Donald Kaplan, "is partly an intellectual fad, partly a response to the kind of patients we started to get in the mid-'60s-people in constant pursuit of new experiences to make their sense of self more palpable and acquit themselves of being less than their neighbors." Psychoanalyst Hendin agrees: "When I grew up, there was a greed for material things; now it's a very egocentric greed for experience." Today, says Hendin, "the culture has made caring seem like...