Word: mammon
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...gifted son. ("How nice you write it out, Georgie, such black ink," he says, examining in uncomprehending wonder George's first musical manuscript.) Herbert Rudley and Albert Basserman underplay with moving simplicity the difficult roles of a retiring, satellite brother and a music teacher distrustful of Mammon's claims on his favorite pupil. Oscar Levant, as himself, needs no acting skill to project his practiced cockiness, but respect for his late friend in real life has given his comic relief performance an unexpected depth...
...governor has "fingers that lust for gold." A U.S. newspaper reporter is "dissipated and dollar-greedy." The Nazi film captions him "a true-to-life American characterization." The rest of the cast are just miscellaneous rascals without character but "all more or less the type of the conscienceless plutocratic mammon...
...visiting the U.S.* he said: "I have no faith that I could do anything good for India by going to America. They would lionize people; they would listen to them, but they would go their own way. . . . It is difficult to wean the golden calf from the worshipers of Mammon...
...made independent. A "Great United Kingdom of The Netherlands" encompassed Flanders and the northern French provinces. "Peace and the boundless realm of the Emperor were finally secured," wrote Poet Thomasset. Ulrich, with mighty Germany as a bulwark against the east, turned his eyes to the west, where lay "a mammon empire-America...
...sheer fierceness and talent this latest novel by Robert Neumann (Mammon, The Queen's Doctor, Zaharoff) has few competitors in recent fiction. Like Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Richard Wright's Native Son, it was written with passion called forth by human wrong. But in Neumann's case that wrong is more complex, less local, more profound: it is the story of the Jews of Europe, of whom Vienna-born Neumann is one. By the Waters of Babylon is perhaps his masterpiece, perhaps theirs...