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...first, and most damaging, of these is that Harvard is a corporate entity in the classical capitalistic sense. Labor disputes are couched in the classic terms of struggling proletariat versus grasping, profit-conscious management; budget surpluses are denounced as "inexcusable" by The Crimson, and students stand amazed at the greed of an administration that could let alumni-giving projections play a part in determining sex-ratios in admissions...
Since the "merchants of death" are constantly spewing forth their lethal products in unchecked and unbridled quantities, in most cases for reasons of greed, in many instances to promote or advance wars, what purpose is being served by the United(?) Nations and its Secretary-General figurehead, who does nothing but uselessly flap about like a beheaded chicken...
...Epic Greed. It was there that the tremendous vitality of 19th century French painting would henceforth be nourished. Napoleon's art adviser, Dominique Vivant Denon, a man so feared for his rapacity that he was known throughout Europe as l'emballeur (the packer), set out to bring back to Paris every portable masterpiece he could lay hands on in conquered territory. This exercise in epic greed was an unqualified success. It assured the dominance of French art for another hundred years...
...thinking with such broad strokes in China," writes MacLaine. This turns out to be one of the understatements of 4763, the Year of the Hare. She enthusiastically quotes official statistics, re ports having seen only happy Chinese faces, and announces the arrival of the "new man," free of competitive greed...
...same judgments apply to Conversation in the Cathedral, a long, layered tale about indolence, greed, violence, corruption, sexual perversion and general animal cunning in modern Peru. The novel is a vortex of determinism driven by one central question: "At what precise moment,"asks the leading character, "had Peru-itself...