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...teachers were wary of wealth and worldliness. Diligence and thrift they enjoined, writes Samuelsson, but so did Roman Catholics in the same mercantile age. And thrift did not make capitalism; it was enterprise that founded the great fortunes and industries. Even Horatio Alger, Samuelsson points out, always had his pious little lads get into the big money by "a gigantic inheritance, left to his hero by some previously unknown relative, or a gift from a multimillionaire who felt the virtuous boy to be worthy of a reward. Thrift and diligence were adequate instruments for winning the favour of rich relatives...
...self-knowledge by the harsh uses of life; Actress MacGrath's Mrs. Alving is so much the sophisticated skeptic that events merely seem to confirm her suspicions. Modernity also mars Staats Cotsworth's Pastor Manders. He plays the hypocrite, but he is not, as Ibsen intended, a pious hypocrite...
Cruel Hoaxes. Amid the nationwide uproar-President Herbert Hoover asked the fledgling FBI to help, and Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army, mindful of the "miraculous accomplishments" God had wrought through the army's lost and found department, urged her pious legions to keep an eye out for the missing 2O-month-old child-there were countless cruel hoaxes and honest if hysterical mistakes by people who claimed to have made contact with the kidnaper. One report came from John F. Condon, a retired New York schoolteacher who, aroused by the crime, had written to the Bronx Home...
...axiomatic that "this alliance is founded on the principle that free men working through the institutions of representative democracy can best satisfy man's desires.'' the declaration listed as its goal basic economic and social advancement. Setting the declaration apart from the serried folios of similarly pious proposals in the past was a flat commitment that "the U.S. wall provide a major part of the minimum of $20 billion, principally in public funds, which Latin America will require over the next ten years...
...G.B.S. has included almost every one of his favorite types; there's the self-made S. B. Clemens-ish Tycoon, the capable Mother, the daring Young Thing, an impossible Suitor for her, a pious Burglar, a graying Aristocrat, and, of course, the "independent" Foreign Lady who can comment caustically on anything the home-bred figures miss. And, then, they all talk--Lord, how they talk: two straight hours of chatter as each character rises hungrily in turn, like a guppy at the food in a goldfish bowl, to strike his pose and horrify at least a good 1/9th...