Word: mammon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money...
...left his house in the care of his steward, Face (Robert Symonds). False Face teams up with a charlatan of alchemy named Subtle (O'Sullivan) and a trollop, Dol Common (Nancy Marchand). This trio of con artists gull the gullible - clerks, widows, fortune hunters such as Sir Epicure Mammon (George Voskovec), and hypocritical Puritans. As written by Jonson, the play has the shapely precision of a ballet, wittily danced to the themes of vanity, greed, cunning, lust and fraud. As directed by Jules Irving, it becomes a shapeless clown show...
Under One Management. Born in Missouri, the son of a Baptist minister, Eaton tried Mammon's way first, took an unsuccessful flyer at gold mining in Nevada before settling down to his life's work in Southern California in 1917. He took over a failing cemetery, pioneered the concept of pay-now-die-later, which he delicately dubbed "The Before-Need Plan." Prices at Forest Lawn begin at $385 for the cheapest grave; after that, there is literally no limit. Eaton put up giant billboards all over Los Angeles, traded heavily on Adman Bruce Barton's slogan...
...LORD CHESTERFIELD: "Few Would-be servants of God put so much energy into their task as Chesterfield puts into the service of Mammon. The load carried by Bunyan's Christian was almost light compared with the burden imposed by this Worldly Wiseman on his unfortunate offspring. He felt that life held no greater good than to please it and be pleased by it. He tells his son: 'We shall not converse much together, for I cannot stand awkwardness; it would endanger my health...
...with their classic columns, used to be the most traditional stereotypes of public buildings. But these two conservative institutions have proved in recent times the most daringly experimental when it comes to architecture -partly because they are built not for efficiency but for the glory of, respectively, God and Mammon, and are not forced into egg-cratery by the economic demands of multitudinous offices in little space. Modern churches now come in all shapes, from fishes to flying saucers. But recently, new banks have begun to rival new churches in variety, elegance, and novelty...