Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body in the foreground is twisted in agony and torture, I see yearning and hopefulness in her gesture. Turning away from us toward the home, reclining in the fields of plenty, she is a symbol of post-Second World War America--isolationist instead of worldly, an island of wealth in a sea of poverty and preoccupied with Midwestern values of decency and wholesomeness...
Archaeologists are particularly concerned about the buried remains of wooden hulls, the part of the ship that has sunk into the seabed or been covered by drifting sand or silt and thus preserved. These remnants, which deteriorate rapidly when exposed to the open sea, provide a wealth of information to scientists. Says Richard Steffy, an INA ship reconstructor: "Ships were the most complex structures made by these societies. When you look at the remains of a ship, you're looking at a very high degree of technology within that period." Working with a crew of assistants and archaeologists, Steffy sketches...
Mindful of his father's injunction that "great wealth is an obligation," Harriman became a Democrat in 1928. In 1952 and 1956, he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination, in part because he could think of no one more qualified to head the nation in an international age. A wooden speaker, he was elected Governor of New York in 1954, but failed to win a second term when he was challenged by Republican Nelson Rockefeller, a millionaire with a more common touch...
...reason that private enterprise is on the rise is clear. While capitalist nations, including the U.S. and the emerging countries of Asia, have been highly successful at creating wealth, socialism has largely proved an economic drag. Says Peter Berger, a sociologist at Boston University: "Socialist societies have been dramatically outperformed by any number of successful capitalist countries, especially in Asia...
...more alive than making money." With that sentence, the author sums up an epoch. In the process, she conspires with her readers who know, as her characters cannot, that after Black Thursday of the following October, the world will change. With certain notable exceptions, neither hereditary titles nor accumulated wealth -- nor resolutely unfashionable novels -- will ever be the same...