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...socio-economic factors within cultures do modify them slightly. Maybe our abundant resources have spoiled us into thinking that affluence is more attractive than health. Rather than maintain a physique that could outrun a lion, we showcase our ability to outspend a monarch. And our tokens of wealth??expensive, designer clothes—are best displayed on skinny, sickly-looking bodies. I couldn’t blame Europeans for looking wealthy. But nothing changes the fact that you’d have to be crazy to want to sleep with a coat hanger. Sarah C. McKetta...
...really well-written.” The original play was created as a vehicle for Hepburn and caters to her aristocratic, intelligent, and lovely strengths. Terry’s struggle to live up to the opportunities she was given over her friends—simply because of her wealth??adds a necessary element of pathos to the formidable comedy. The real sense that everyone in the boarding house is desperately struggling makes the comedy sharper and leaves the story far meatier than an equivalent Busby Berkley behind-the-scenes show. The comparable story...
...some beer,” said John H. Jernigan ’06, a resident of DeWolfe and affiliate of Dunster House. “He was something of a mythological figure to some students—he had a PhD and there were rumors of independent wealth??but as long as the new owner continues to sell beer and wine, it doesn’t make much of a difference...
What is most disquieting about Ferguson’s assertions is that they ignore human desires that go beyond the material; life and liberty come before property. The danger of the oversimplified economic argument is that it reduces human life and labor to commodities. Empire brings wealth??but to whom, and how is it shared? What is the “value” of wealth if it is not gotten in a free society? Can we jettison freedom and equality, old-fashioned virtues as they are? What aspects of humanity get shoved aside in the pursuit...
Still others avoided the actual rally, choosing instead to stay downstairs at the entrance of Austin Hall, handing out flyers lambasting both the University for playing “a shell game with its vast wealth?? and the union itself for not being active enough in protecting the rights of its members...