Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIGURE THAT HOLLYWOOD promised to most of America what the Gatsbys did once upon a time: the possibility of godhoods and kingdoms of wealth not as afterlife's reward but as descended upon the chosen among men. It is not, after all, by accident that socialite and actor alike go by the name of "star"--star who could be god to more men than any man might be devil, star whose mortal success might so seem to fulfill the richest reddest blooded fantasies of the most American that it could appear as immortality achieved on earth. Gatsby would...
...figure further, figure even preposterously, that God gives all things equally to all men. Then if mortal life is rotten for most, the soul's reward will be golden. Then too, mortal stardom as every man's dream may be the star's nightmare. As it was Gatsby's, it would later be Hollywood's. Yes, Gatsby's falling star might have seen it writ in the stars that he and his kind would pass on the dreams of America to Hollywood. The talent though not the creed would change, and the next generation of immortals might be his progeny...
...description and of grossness to try belief, proclaiming its economic sources even as it tells how prettily money can be used. It is a paradise existing as a testimony to the monstrous inequities of life--the logical extension of consumption ethic America--its wealth the moral point and the reward if not the end of economic success...
...second issue is more general: does Harvard really stimulate and reward creativity? Does it not promote scholarship and critical competence to such an extreme degree that creative experimentation is effectively stifled? Who really feels free to try something absolutely new, in terms of individual expression, and then can find a way to go about doing it with experienced support and academic blessing...
...employees gave matching payments into a fund was taken away from the workers without their consent. The printers will receive neither the funds that Harvard paid into that plan in their name nor the interest on the funds which they deposited with the University. A printer's only reward for giving the University more money to extend its investments is a dollar-for-dollar repayment upon retirement of his contribution with the value of those dollars eroded by inflation. Furthermore, Harvard offers fewer holidays and lower night shift pay than other printers' shops locally. As Jim Havlan, shop steward...