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Your article "The Great Vatican Bank Mystery" [Sept. 13] was a cheap shot. Banco Ambrosiano, with small I.O.R. holdings, can hardly be called a Vatican anything. Roberto Calvi was probably guilty only of greed and poor judgement. Italy's leaders, who are anticlerical, should not be allowed to divert attention from their economic bungling to the thin Vatican connection. Banco Ambrosiano is just another example of the weakness of the world banking system...
...Jiggetts has a clear message for fans who may be frustrated by what they see as player "greed." "When you get past Monday night," he says, his voice rising just a bit to emphasize the point, "you're talking about real people with families. The public should understand that we're after something real and fair Pro sports is entertainment People don't mind Frank Sinatra coming into Chicago and making a million on a weekend--but what about the football player who risks his neck to provide entertainment...
...centennial production of the Ring cycle, staged by the French enfant terrible Patrice Chreau and conducted by Pierre Boulez. Using such anachronisms as the Rhine Maidens playing near a hydroelectric dam, Chéreau fashioned an allegory of the industrial revolution from Wagner's mythic tale of greed and its consequences. A vivid mixture of naturalistic detail and wild flights of imaginative fancy, the Chéreau Ring set the tone for what followed...
When people first came to the West, particularly from the owned and fought-over farmlets of Europe, and saw so much land to be had for the signing of a paper and the building of a foundation, an itching land-greed seemed to come over them. They wanted more and more land?good land if possible, but land anyway . . . The early settlers took up land they didn't need and couldn't use; they took up worthless land just to own it. ?John Steinbeck, East of Eden...
...grab what you can, then go back with our money. Make it here, spend it there; take everything, give nothing. Tell me what you've given this country? I know what you've taken-I pay you every Saturday. It's our generosity against your greed. Not just you, it's all the damned immigrants. But especially the Greeks, you're the worst. No wonder everybody in this country dislikes and distrusts...