Word: interest
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...companion, Valentinus, travels to Lucifer to regain the memory of his past life, that of a second-century seer of the Gnostic sect. Valentinus is equally faceless, and takes no interest in the fate of his friend. The two travel from world to world courtesy of Olam--an Aeon, one of the super-natural beings of the Gnostic mythos. Curiously, Olam is the most well-characterized of the three, revealing touches of peevishness that are the only human moments in the book...
Whatever fascination The Flight to Lucifer holds lies in the historical and philosophical interest in Gnosticism itself, not in Bloom's bankrupt dramatization of it. The Gnostics envision a complete reversal of Biblical myths on the order of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In their version, the Old Testament's creator-God becomes the evil Demiurge, who created the physical world to imprison man and estrange him from the true God--who is not part of Creation at all, but an alien being to whom men with true knowledge, or gnosis, seek to return. The doctrines make provocative...
...Office of Strategic Services and used these contacts to find agents among the burgeoning numbers of foreign students--there were only 34,323 in 1955 but about 250,000 in 1975. An increasing percentage of these came from the turbulent Third World in which the CIA gradually took more interest and to which the American-educated student would return as a member of his country's elite...
...Gray Panthers, a group of aged activists, have been lobbying long and hard for higher interest for small savers, and have publicized their campaign through buttons and bumper stickers bearing their wry slogan: "Savings may be hazardous to your wealth." They have a point. Just to keep even with double-digit erosion, the head of a family of four who earns taxable income of $20,000 would have to be paid interest of 11.25% on his passbook savings, or more than twice the current rate...
...York Times that the company's three long-term public policy concerns were the withdrawal of public lands from development, the stringency of the Clean Air Act and increasing government regulation of corporations. ARCO's programs to mobilize employees and propagandize the public against these threats to its economic interest are described in its annual report under the rubric of "Corporate Responsibility." That takes chutzpah...