Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian dramatist named Guiseppe Giacosa visited the United States in 1898, he proclaimed that "the primative measurement of works of art in terms of dollars and cents in the United States leaves me with a sense of disgust. I remember a visit to the home of a very rich collector of pictures in New York. He accompanied me himself, set me at the best point of view before each item, and declaimed in Ciceronian accents: 'Corot, ten thousand dollars; Millet, fifteen thousand...
...from the graceful spirituality of Riverside Church; you are a matter of blocks from the be-bop, voodoo jungle of Harlem. Gaze down from the tallest, plushest apartment building, and spy a slum at its feet. The very old is never far from the very new. Nor the very rich from the very poor...
Walt Oehrlein, a two-year letterman who played number two last season behind his brother Rich, will be at number one for the Cadets. His match with Romer Holleran ought to be the first of a series of close number, one matches this year. Oehrlein won his number two match in three straight games last year; Holleran was a semifinalist in the national intercollegiate...
...their meager evidence of it by ogling puberty rites and bare-breasted concubines. Footage of a strip show in Beirut brings on a French tootsie who casts a hard eye at the camera and says she will gladly trade off her pasties to any sheik, sultan or oil-rich daddy who can meet the cover charge. This may be slavery, but most of the civilized world has another name...
...best of this collection of short novels and stories. Anthea Mortlock seeks herself despite her grotesquely snobbish mother, who wants her "in society." Anthea finds brief ecstasy in a scramble on the sand with a local rebel. But he indifferently leaves town, and she relapses into marriage to a rich miser of the affections. Her husband is mercifully killed in an automobile accident, and she is left the money to wander the world, a rich exile with her looking glass for judge...