Word: mammon
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...square, the “Alan Dershowitz” at Bartley’s. Before breaking bread, we make sure to lead the group in a good ol’-fashioned Harvard prayer, so we face the B-school and genuflect five times to the gods of mammon and usury...
...bank's helm. A low-profile company insider who joined HSBC in 1982, Green was tapped in November to become HSBC's new chairman after the dapper and dynamic Bond retires in May. A part-time deacon, Green penned an unusual book in 1996 titled Serving God? Serving Mammon?, in which he strives to reconcile the money-hungry world of Big Business with the Christian ideal of love for humanity. "The kingdom of God can be found in the thick of the markets, and God calls some Christians to take the risk of being there," he writes. Not much risk...
...difficult to single out performers from the uniformly gifted supporting cast, but Brian C. Polk ’09 deserves special mention for his performance as a strutting, flashy Sir Epicure Mammon, complete with the toothy lurid smile indicative of his character’s “voluptuous mind...
...story begins with the rediscovery of the “Spear of Destiny,” presumably the lance that pierced Jesus’ side during his crucifixion, here a mystical talisman that “Corinthians 17” predicts will usher in the rein of Mammon, son of Lucifer. (Don’t bother looking it up; it only exists, according to the film, in the version of the Bible found in Hell.) Such unabashedly bogus uses of Christian jargon pepper the movie: the gift of prophecy becomes the hottest new tool in forensics and criminology; while...
...something about his combination of blue-eyed swagger and success has caught the public fancy and made him in many ways a symbol of an acquisitive and mercenary age. Gossip columnist Liz Smith summed it up when she wrote, "Even if Trump is the truest, most flamboyant child of Mammon yet produced at this waning moment of the 20th century, I like his style...