The hearings pitted the bushy-browed McCarthy and his chief counsel, the vulpine Roy Cohn, against the U.S. Army and its special outside counsel, the wellmannered Joseph Welch. The most famous sound bite of the hearings came after ...
The Way We Live Now
Champagne and ginger-beer are all the same when you stand to win or lose thousands, – with this only difference, that champagne may have deteriorating results which the more innocent beverage will not produce.
The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope.
The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialisation. It was regarded by many of Trollope's contemporaries...
the first volume of the reprint , chapters 1–50 ) was to be with Chapman and Hall by the end of October 1873 , which ... According to N. John Hall in his Trollope and his Illustrators ( London , Macmillan , 1980 ) they represent ' the ...
The Way We Live Now
Easyread Large Edition Anthony Trollope. fied in eating up the property, which his son's future marriage would renew as a matter of course. Nid- derdale himself had never dissented, had entertained no fanciful theory opposed to this ...
In this selection of psychologist Maureen Gaffney's articles from 'The Irish Times', she writes about everyday problems and communicates up-to-date psychological findings in a popular and accessible way.
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Australia has undergone profound change in the 90s. The way we live and think has been influenced by recession, by the theories of economic rationalism, by the fall of Keating...
It begins in satire and finally resolves into entertaining social comedy.” —The Guardian A classic satirical novel by the author of the Chronicles of Baretshire series, The Way We Live Now exposes the financial impropriety, greed, and ...
'This is his most powerful book since THE USES OF LITERACY and. . . deserves to be equally widely read. ' SUNDAY TIMES Richard Hoggart is one of Britain's most distinguished cultural critics.
‘A tale of financial skulduggery reminiscent of recent city scandals’ Daily Telegraph Trollope's magnificent and prescient satire about a dishonest financier who buys his way into a corrupt society, and throws it into turmoil.
In this world of bribes and vendettas, swindling and suicide, in which heiresses are won like gambling stakes, Trollope's characters embody all the vices: Lady Carbury, a 43-year-old coquette, 'false...
The Way We Live Now: American Plays & the AIDS Crisis
A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy.
An unscrupulous Victorian lady exploits all available means to further the financial and social aspirations of her knavish son who plans to marry the daughter of a wealthy swindler.
It was inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s; Trollope had just returned to England from abroad, and was appalled by the greed and dishonesty those scandals exposed. This novel was his rebuke.