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Luken's campaign target was the Nixon Administration, and his theme was a sophisticated version of "Send Washington a message." At supermarkets, barber shops and factory gates, he inveighed against food and oil prices as examples of "corporate greed" and declared that "a vote for me is a vote against 'big money' politics." In sharp contrast, Gradison's early campaign was poorly organized and lackluster, depending too often on philosophical position papers and rambling speeches on subjects like "the status of ethics in politics." Often he seemed to be skirting the issues. For example, when Luken...
...happy ending. When Kamehameha died, he left his dynasty seemingly secure in the hands of a crown prince with the Lady Kaahumanu as regent. Even a short-ranged epilogue would have shown the dynasty and the island's culture disintegrating under the white man's burden of greed and commerce. ∎Laurence I. Barrett
...right note of light camp. They all but twirl hypothetical mustaches. The songs by Don Pippin and Steve Brown have a rollicking charm. When Mrs. Tiffany (Mary Jo Catlett) embarks on her fantasy of "My daughter the Countess," she is aquiver with such an exuberance of social-climbing greed that one almost hopes she makes...
...unjust term, that the individual forfeits his worth, but in the moment he accepts and justifies his "broken conscience" and forsakes his duty to himself and to his fellow men. The abdication of moral responsibility is the boundary between those still human in mind and heart and those whose greed, whose cowardice, whose obedience--it may be an obedience to an "historical process" they hastily invoke but hardly understand--has made meaningless for them the concepts of guilt, choice, faith, love...
...Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). The story of greed and gold, directed by John Huston (who also wrote the script). Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt play prospectors after treasure (and eventually each other). Ch. 56, 9 p.m. B/W, 2 1/2 hours...