Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program came close to being shelved-at least for this year. In March, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Robert Finch, together with Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, submitted the food-stamp proposal to the President. Fine, said Nixon, but where will we get the money? Though the President planned an attack on hunger in 1971, there was no room in his tight budget for the millions of dollars needed to start the program in 1970. As months passed, the hunger question became a prickly issue in the White House. Some advisers sided with Presidential Counselor...
...unobtainable, except in tourist hotels. Cosmetics are hard to get. Any visitor is likely to be offered more money for the clothes on his back than they were worth new; it matters only that they were not made in Egypt, for that is the mark of status today...
...Yoko Ono. "A mansion?" scoffs John. "A nice functional house with just a couple of rooms for Yoko and me." What about that splendid private picture gallery? "Just a shed where everyone plays pingpong." The $348,000 price tag? Another bagatelle. "I say sometimes that we spend too much money, but it's a joke. I've got millions." Would the grounds be opened to the public? "Like hell. That may be a tradition here, but everyone knows I'm not traditional...
...grandeur of Oedipus; when a comic hero is blinded, he becomes as ludicrous as a mole. Moliere, the most serious writer of comedy who ever lived, took just such a blind mole and made him the mock hero of The Miser. Harpagon (Robert Symonds) has a singular obsession-money. Like most obsessions, it is not magnificent but malignant. It allows the great 17th century French dramatist to make a central moral point-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Harpagon is blind to his children's hope of love, blind to his servants' grievances, and hopelessly...
...manifesto itself was less sweeping than Forman's revolutionary introduction. It did demand half a billion dollars from U.S. churches and synagogues as reparations for their role in supporting the "exploitation" of the American Negro. But most of the money was earmarked for such plausible projects as a Southern land bank to aid dispossessed Negro farmers and a new black university in the South...