Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thoughts of Balthazar B, whose picaresque life story seems to prove F. Scott Fitzgerald's statement that "the very rich are different from you and me." Actually, rich or poor, J. P. Don-leavy's characters always appear to lead lives destroyed in some way by money...
...sexual scenes, often dominated by Beefy's rhetoric, bear an uncomfortable resemblance to those of the earlier book. But there is a dramatic shift in focus from the blatant hardships of the lower classes in Ginger Man to the more subtle and delicate troubles of the moneyed aristocracy. In both cases, there doesn't seem to be much justice for such money-haunted people as Balthazar, Beefy, Dangerfield and O'Keefe. "God's mercy on the wild Ginger Man," wrote Donleavy. God's mercy on poor Balthazar...
...whole legal system tends to confirm his notion. For one thing, trials are mainly contests between lawyers, not impartial efforts to diagnose misfits. The very fact that most criminals are not caught makes the caught ones feel that getting captured was their only mistake. Worse, they learn that money talks: most defendants cannot afford the skilled lawyers who spring rich clients. So the defendants plead guilty without trial and are sentenced by judges who cannot tell how many years will suffice for "rehabilitation." The criminals are caged in prisons without job training, suffer sexual deprivation, and eventually are dumped back...
Furthermore, an anonymous donation last year of $12 1/2 million came with a qualifying, statement that the money be used for an undergraduate facility. Total cost of the building is roughly $17 1/2 million...
...underground area will take "a minor portion" of the $2 million total involved in the Bertram-Eliot project, Mrs. Bunting said. The center building and the renovation work--which includes converting individual rooms into three-to-six room suites--will use up the rest of the money...