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...with every other shortage, the civilian will sooner or later pay for his greed. Just when cotton goods rationing will come depends on whether the U.S. civilian from now on buys from need or from fright. But the best bet is that fright-buying has already gone so far that rationing will come by next fall, even if hoarding stops...
Chief stumbling blocks in the path of spiritual progress, Ramakrishna told his followers in an oft-repeated phrase, is kaminikanchan (literally "Woman & Gold," meaning "lust & greed"). " 'Woman & Gold' alone is the obstacle to yoga," said he. "What is there in the body of a woman? Only such things as blood, flesh, fat, entrails, and the life. Why should one love such a body?" In some of his ecstasies, Ramakrishna regarded himself as a woman and worshipped Kali as her handmaid. Said his woman devotees: "We seldom looked on Sri Ramakrishna as a member of the male...
...first program, which will be held in the New Lecture Hall on November 18, will feature "Greed," a picture written and directed by Erich von Stroheim. At its Berlin premiere this picture caused riots because if its wartime characterizations and because of von Stroheim's extreme unpopularity with the Nazis...
Both of the Washingtons were still growing last week-the Capital of politics, of lobbyists, bureaucracy, waste, inefficiency, greed, red tape, delay, confusion; and the other Washington, the center of a Government that is the world's biggest business, where decisions somehow get made and work somehow gets done...
...looked back on white rule as paradise lost. With occidental markets for their produce cut off, they were thrown out of work by the hundreds of thousands. They starved and grumbled. They saw their rice being snatched for other parts of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere" (i.e. Japan), with Japanese greed heightened by subnormal crops at home. A Japanese problem was to find enough ships to carry the loot...