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...some of those have a slightly greedy tone, the reason is that New Age fantasies often intersect with mainstream materialism, the very thing that many New Age believers profess to scorn. A surprising number of successful stockbrokers consult astrological charts; a yuppie investment banker who earns $100,000 a year talks of her previous life as a monk. Some millionaires have their own private gurus who pay house calls to provide comfort and advice. Big corporations too are paying attention. "The principle here is to look at the mind, body, heart and spirit," says a corporate spokesperson, who asks that...
...gambling world is filled with--and lives off of--slickers who never had a prayer. But the gamblers never scorn them. "Losers are suppliers," says poker champ Pug Pearson. "When you beat a man, you don't rub his face in it. You shrug and agree that it was luck and give him another chance. At double or nothing...
...rent control this year, while members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association--David E. Sullivan, Alice K. Wolf, Saundra M. Graham and Francis H. Duehay '55--are promising to restrict development in the city. Two Independents--Ed Cyr and incumbent Alfred E. Vellucci--also support rent control but scorn involvement with the CCA, which both call a snobbish product of the academic community...
...Himmelfarb, a conservative-minded professor at the City University of New York, who specializes in 19th century history (Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians). Her sonorous scorn for the excesses and rigidities of the new history might win the approval of the ghost of Carlyle. She loathes the idea that social history should base itself on a substructure of material detail "that supposedly goes deeper than mere political arrangements and is not amenable to reason." Worse, anthropological history explores "such nonrational aspects of society as mating customs and eating habits"; psychoanalytic history dwells "upon the irrational . . . aspects of individual...
...first Mike lounges warily in Claire's palatial digs, tossing newspaper wads into the sconces. Mike considers her with the outsider's mixture of scorn and awe. But why should he consider her at all? He is at ease in the world outside Manhattan; he has a loving wife (Lorraine Bracco) and a fine young son. For that matter, why should Claire think of Mike as anything but a nuisance or a clown? He shadows her everywhere, mangles the language and dresses like a used-car salesman at Sunday Mass. Yet she responds to his strength. Though...