Word: wealth
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...John Berryman, and other friends, his opposition to the Vietnam War--are interesting but tangential to Hamilton's defense of Lowell's place in modern poetry. In the end, questions such as insanity and its relationship to love and genius are left unanswered. Hamilton simply leaves us with a wealth of well-presented source material to use in thinking about these questions. It is an important gift...
...unusual Christmas in a Kung San village in the Kalahari Desert To show his appreciation for the tribe generosity, Lee slaughtered the fattest ox in the neighborhood as a Christmas gift. The Kung responded only with abuse and ridicule, and Lee had to infer that such displays of wealth and superiority are inappropriate. "The interesting thing is the competitive aspect of gift-giving, and that generosity can be interpreted in lots of different ways in different societies...
...Niekerk, owner of a "blinklippie," a stone that turns out to be the 83-carat Star of Africa diamond; the Struben brothers, who strike one of the world's richest gold fields on their farm; plus an indelible supporting cast of victims and survivors. The Afrikaners, caroming between wealth and catastrophe, assaulted by tribal warriors, defeated by the British in the Boer War, grow diamond hard with circumstance until today they speak more readily of Armageddon than of dinner. Yet the best of them can see the tragedy of the blacks as the reverse image of their own history...
Unfortunately, college tends to put a four-year limit on the average sports fan's memory, so maybe people have forgotten the days when B.U. Harvard hockey games were life-and-death matters. To understand the hatred Crimson fans developed for their Common-wealth Avenue rivals, you have to realize it was usually life for B.U. and death for Harvard...
Next year the bishops will take up a topic that is potentially as divisive as abortion or nuclear weaponry. A committee led by Milwaukee's Archbishop Weakland is conducting a thoroughgoing moral evaluation of capitalism. The bishops have already advocated the redistribution of economic wealth in the U.S., and have blamed Third World poverty on an exploitive U.S. economic policy and multinational corporations. Conservative critics find this an appallingly simplistic view of economic realities, amounting at best to a kind of global sentimentality and at worst to a repetition of left-wing propaganda platitudes. Last week, without specifically mentioning...