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Dorothy registers every lapse of taste and grace, but she is consumed by greed, and her judgment of her mother's loving servants is unfailingly obtuse. When the solicitor consults her about the dis position of the jewels - after the grande dame has at last died peacefully on her own commode - Dorothy asks, "Are there any jewels left, after the nurses have taken their pick...
...acerbic apostle of righteousness who had thrived as Nixon's Vice President on strident demands for harsh judgments against all who disagreed with his own rigid concepts of acceptable ideology and permissible?but never permissive?behavior. Then, faced with overwhelming evidence of his own criminal corruptness and petty greed in accepting graft from Maryland contractors, Agnew successively claimed innocence, lashed out at his accusers, copped a plea on income tax evasion, and quit...
This old and unreliable cliché remains in vogue precisely because it is a comfort to the cynically inert conscience. Why risk a moral stance if evil, greed and calculated self-interest will invariably win out? Win they certainly do in The Visit. Clara Zachanassian (Rachel Roberts), a middle-aging, much-married multimillionairess, has come back to her impoverished home town of Gullen with a rather special proposition. She will bestow half a billion marks on the town and another half a billion to be divided equally among its citizens in return for what might be called Salome...
...their fantasy, the tales thrive on very real love, hate, envy, greed, murder and even cannibalism. As Translator Segal notes, nowhere in all the Grimm fairy tales can one find a single fairy. The term seems to have been popularized in England about the time when the Grimm stories were being translated and prettified for children. Take Snow White, for example: in most bowdlerized versions, the wicked stepmother orders the huntsman to bring back Snow White's heart. In the original folk story, it is her lungs and liver that the bad lady wants-so that...
Wiesenthal is severely, and justly, critical of the monarchs, whose greed and overweening zeal did so much economic and spiritual harm both to the Jews and to Spain itself, crowning the Inquisition's persecution of Jews with the expulsion from the country of most of its best commercial minds. The final irony, of course, is that these two remorseless rulers, who financed Columbus' later expeditions with plundered Jewish wealth, unwittingly opened a New World where, in the centuries that followed, persecuted Jews would indeed find the haven they had sought so long...