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...Plains county courthouse. Little escapes an eye trained by the textures and details of the 19th century novel of manners. In fact, the Jean Harris case provides Trilling with all the things that she has found lacking in serious contemporary fiction: "Love and sexual passion, honor, money, envy, jealousy, greed, death, greatness and meanness of spirit, the anguishing anatomy of class differences: all these which were once major themes of the novel were disappearing from literature to find their home in television, whose falsifications steadily weakened our understanding of life even while we boasted our superiority to its influence...
Humorist Will Rogers, Oklahoma's favorite son, once joshed a former U.S. Treasury Secretary: "Mac, knowing you was manager of Uncle Sam's Treasury so long, I thought you'd be well heeled." Rogers' homespun irreverence about official greed may be timeless, but Oklahomans today are not laughing. A three-year federal investigation of the state's elected officials has found that graft is routine and nearly ubiquitous in Oklahoma county government, and has added as much as $10 million a year to the state's road-maintenance costs. Only one county commissioner...
...charges that Johnson was sent "envelopes stuffed with cash" while he was Vice President, and that as President, Johnson misused the power of his office to build a personal fortune. Johnson, writes Caro, "died with the American people still ignorant not only of the dimensions of his greed but of its intensity...
...White House last week. Senators, Congressmen and outside experts hammered away. Quit slicing at the regular appropriations, some said, and go after the big entitlements like Social Security. Chop more out of defense, argued others. Pay attention to Wall Street's warnings. Wall Street is an index of greed-attack it. Try the gold standard. Don't try the gold standard...
There are explanations, all of them ugly. Economic greed. Racism. Wartime hysteria. Americans of German or Italian ancestry did not suffer mass incarceration, but the shock of Pearl Harbor inflamed the century-old hatred of Oriental immigrants-the "yellow peril...