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...News has never been free from servitude to King Mammon. The paper for the past few years has been partially subsidized by an annual compulsory subscription of $2.25 per student. Next week the student body will decide by referendum whether to retain the subsidy or whether to throw the News into the stormy waters of free competition...
...performance of the evening was turned in by James Matisoff as Sir Epicure Mammon; he creeps about the stage, delivering his passionate outbursts, alternately joyful and despondent, and always excellent. He was ably supported by Nathan Douthit--with amazing grimaces and thunderous orations, and Carl Morgan--the stomach-stroking pastor with a thirst for gold...
Although opinion on this side of the river is divided on whether the neatly-spaced quadrangles on the other side form the Temple of God or the Temple of Mammon, there is general unanimity on one point: that the Harvard School of Business Administration is probably the most important and the most effective training-ground in the country for the future leaders of our economic system. But to say, in effect, that the Business School is the best in the country is not necessarily to say that it is good enough. American business in the next 25 years is going...
Cecil B. deMille's motion picture The Ten Commandments is disgusting. It is disgusting not so much because it is-mostly-bad drama, nor even because it serves as one of the decade's most elaborate monuments to the union between God and Mammon, but because it is dishonest and almost immoral. After Mr. de Mille and his publicity men have swathed the picture in clouds of religious ballyhoo by such stunts as the incredible full-page ad in the New York Times citing the laudatory comments of a number of religious leaders, he reneges and will not have...
...Mammon have long been partners in Kyoto, whose centuries-old Buddhist and Shinto temples are a potent magnet for worshipers and sightseers from all over the world, but changing times have exacted a telling strain on the partnership. When they were cut off from government subsidy by the MacArthur constitution, which divorced Japanese church and state, most of Kyoto's temples began charging admission fees in order to support themselves. The result was a bonanza of tax-free riches. This delighted the Buddhist and Shinto priests but filled Kyoto's Mayor Gizo Takayama, a Congregationalist, with ill-concealed...