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...House of All Nations, the approach is similarly expansive but the intensity is missing. To write it the author drew on the years when she and her husband were employed in a bank that collapsed. She observed the motley incarnations of greed who inhabited the place, and obviously developed a grudging fascination with the charms of avarice. But she has set it all in motion with more gusto than discrimination...
...cousin she was visiting to pay what should have been a $35 fare. Mrs. Morgan's story hit the newspapers, prompting help from a wholly unexpected source: Frank Sinatra. The singer sent Mrs. Morgan a check for $250 by personal messenger in apology for his countryman's greed. "When I visited England," explained Sinatra, "everyone treated me so well. I felt this was the least I could...
...nevertheless sees primitivism as a vastly overrated way of life. On the other hand, the European's contribution in Africa has too often been merely a more efficient method of killing. Hanley's solitary reflections have taught him that there is really no satisfying man's greed, lust and appetite for novelty. In independent Kenya, where he returns to observe, only the Tusker beer seems to be the same. Many of his friends are gone, the game is scarcer and, as Hanley had noticed in much of East Africa, "the cement mixers are massing on the horizon...
...bitterly: "How can a nation's heritage be saved when her own people fail to recognize it as their own irreplaceable culture?" The overriding threat is not posed by iconoclastic maniacs like Toth but by eminently respectable town mayors, government planners and chairmen of land-development companies, whose greed or laziness is transforming Italy's historic centers into a chaotic urban wilderness, its coastline into holiday camps lapped by a salty chemical soup, and its museums and churches into understaffed, crumbling fermentation chambers where works of art sit and decay...
...Unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger...