Word: bread
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...place," Sir--the embodiment of England's insensitive aristocracy--and his servant Cocky--the embodiment of England's righteous lower class--imagine their own metaphysical stage and act out society's cruelties in The Game. As Sir arbitrarily changes the rules, forcing Cocky to grovel for a loaf of bread, Greasepaint seems like a Romper Room production of some absurdist play. For the entire first act, The Game follows its repetitive course with Sir betraying poor, dim-witted Cocky's confidence again and again...
...house to them, or allow them into his establishment." So they're allowed to screw (and how many are really prohibited from that today?) but if the owner of the corner store decides he hates "faggots" for whatever irrational reason he wants he can stop selling them loaves of bread. Don't like Blacks? In Clark's world, you set up your own school or bus company or mail service and announce that Black people's letters will not be carried, their bodies not transported, their children not educated. If your libertarian opponent will admit that prejudice exists, he will...
Belinda, 'tis true that the World is not form'd for the Benefit of Women, and oft' they must sacrifice their nice Principles in order to put Bread into their own Mouths and those of their Children; but I was ne'er so made as to be able to pretend Love of a loathsome Man for Hope of Gain, and it hath been my Experience that I have prosper'd nonetheless...
Those...who mock liberty by questioning its value to a starving man who first needs bread, forget the simple fact that often the man has been denied bread because he has been denied the liberty to fight for that bread...
...fight for bread, there will be winners and losers--in a time of scarce resources, a contest will be a zero-sum proposition. Bell recognizes this, and points out the equality-liberty question as problematic...