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...revenue sharing as a new source of funds for the states. But he has an ideological horror of having the Federal Government take over welfare. He opposes any further concentration of power in Washington, and he recently attacked his own state's welfare system for "subsidizing those whose greed is greater than their need...
France: An Excess of Greed...
...insights, belong to the realm of statements about life. The Miss America show is more significant that Miss America herself; Time's cover article on Love Story and the Return to Romanticism says more about America than Love Story itself; and Love Story , in turn, says more about greed and obtuseness than Erich Segal's 5' 10" body. Its only a conjecture, but maybe the chicken gumbo sitting in your kitchen cupboard tells less about ourselves in this age of media and masscult than Warhols jazzy repro, resting elegantly and silently, in the Museum of Modern...
...made one of its periodic re-entries into the American consciousness, Laos is an American colony-or an attempt at one. Everyone in Laos knows it, and all but the Americans discuss it openly, some with hate, some with envy, some with fear, some with an affection born of greed...
...Gdansk demonstrations quickly became a drama doubly motivated. While some protesters were setting fire to party headquarters, others were looting stores in gestures of need or greed. Men dashed to safety with looted overcoats hastily donned over their own. and women lugged bulging packages. Fleet-footed teen-agers took everything from fur coats to oranges and champagne. Some entrepreneurs stopped long enough to sell surplus loot at curbside. One boy's inventory of shirts, for only 40 zlotys (or $1) apiece, was a steal in itself...