Word: mammon
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Many mainstream Christians?particularly those most critical of the values of commercial American society and suspicious about serving God and Mammon together?are troubled by the way in which celebrated Evangelicals blend show biz and salvation. They deplore the star system they tend to foster and the amounts of cash required to maintain what has been referred to as the "country-and-westernization of religion...
...Center is divided into three parts. There is the skyscraper, with 1.3 million sq. ft. of office space. The Market, three floors of a glass-roofed, tree-dotted building within a building, houses shops and restaurants. And, paying its dues to God as well as Mammon, Citicorp Center includes one of the most beautiful churches to be erected in Manhattan in this century, a jagged 85-ft.-high polygonal structure of granite and glass that stands free of the office tower and shares a sunken plaza with The Market...
...Independent, then left-wing Laborite Member of Parliament (1942-75); of an apparent heart attack; in London. An Oxonian, Driberg first became known as "William Hickey," a gossip columnist for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (1933-43). As an M.P. he was an outspoken critic of the "mammon imperialists" of Washington and Wall Street. The London Times, in an unusual obituary, noted that Driberg was a homosexual, a fact that he had neither publicized nor sought to hide...
...fist. Drugger (Denis Pelli) is an honest tob acconist who wants his shop to prosper; Pelli stammers and shuffles cringingly enough, but it's a little disturbing to see Jonson make fun of someone simply because he's not too bright and wants to prosper. Sir Epicure Mammon (Spito Veloudos) has always been the character in the play I most identify with (I was typecast to play him in a high-school production), Veloudos is drunk with his own words, his ecstatic visions of gluttony. All his appetites--gustatory and sexual--are to be fulfilled by the Philosopher's Stone...
...ranging from $25,000 to $1 million. Similarly, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, an umbrella organization for U.S. male religious orders, has organized an effort to bail out the La Salettes. Still, that leaves a number of investors whose fate is still unknown, and whose traffic with Mammon may well have left a much more bitter legacy of lost hope, faith and money...