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They came from Ohio and Massachusetts and Missouri. There is no memory of their having taken to the pavement in the past. For decades businessmen big and small have been the target of much political contempt and odium, often with justification. They were the representatives of profit and greed (a distinction rarely made), purveyors of shoddy products and pollution. Businessmen searched for influence in the subterranean corridors of power, using lawyers and fixers, fearful of bureaucrats, reporters and sunshine...
...Geneva, Richard frankly admits he hopes it will help him get back into the House of Commons. "If it goes well, obviously, some of the glitter is going to rub off," he says. "If it goes badly, presumably a fair amount of odium will rub off. That's just a fact of life." To the extent that his future depends on his success at the Rhodesian conference, what is good for Ivor Richard may very well be good for Britain...
...browbeat with impunity as they seek to amass paper fortunes and drive other contestants into bankruptcy. "It is a game," in one buffs words, "in which everyone loves to hate his neighbor." The Monopoly Book, however, gives the player more of a chance to rely on intellect than odium. Starting from the beginning, when each player has an issue of $1,500 in scrip, Brady gives advice on which property group to buy and develop, how many buildings to put on it, and what the prospects of returns and appreciation may be. Using the laws of probability ("The most commonly...
...this cheerful odium issues from Hate, Inc., the brainchild of Budd Arthur, 45, a Chicago public relations man. Since Arthur first began promoting his idea last November, more than 1,000 people of ill will have written Hate, Inc. Arthur believes not only that he can keep his volatile idea safely within farcical - and financially profitable - bounds, but also that the well-timed release of carefully nurtured hatreds can be beneficial. Says he: "The weapon is satire. If we're successful, the haters will have to find a new word." That does not mean, of course, that...
This is not, of course, an accident. Hitler himself would have approved the mythic stature (if not the odium) that posterity has accorded him: his entire life was conceived as a prodigious drama - "Qualis artifex pereo!" as Nero is supposed to have said ("What an artist dies with me!"). Even the name of his superstate, the Tausendjahrige Reich, or Thousand-Year Reich, was derived from prophetic myths about the Christian millennium: a time when, after a cosmic battle between Christ and Antichrist, the forces of evil are locked away forever, the dialectic of history is abolished, and a reign...