Word: mammonize
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Worshipping Mammon. . . Just published is a book that calls them all out of tune. Protestantism and capitalism are not interdependent, writes Swedish Economic Historian Kurt Samuelsson in Religion and Economic Action (Basic Books...
...difficulty of the play is that it tries to encompass too much; it includes too many themes. It attempts to explore the spirit of the Twenties, the antagonisms between the Twenties and the Thirties, the decline of a human being, the conflict between the creative writer and the movie Mammon, and the love and failure in love of a man and a woman. Some of this material, such as the conflict between the Twenties and Thirties, does not seem especially important a quarter of a century later...
...Manna or Mammon...
...taught at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, became a U.S. citizen, gathered impressions for postwar columns in the Vienna New Austria. On audiences at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (where his son Herbert has been a longtime stage director): "Each year a new generation of Mammon families is educated for attendance at the Metropolitan, where the young lady learns to sit in a box with the cool expression of a rich heiress and look at the stage as if she were packed...
...Mammon puts his best foot forward this week at the Brussels World Fair, he will find his ancient competition on hand-the Roman Catholics in a mammoth pavilion called Civitas Dei (The City of God), and the Protestants in a modest prefab, one-eleventh the size, with no name...