Old Chen, intellectual and novelist, is smitten by the material success of the country and reluctant to believe dissident claims, but finds himself drawn into a plot to kidnap an official and question him about government policy and the amnesia outbreak.
It is learning focused upon civility, upon the importance of community and family in a time where the dominant paradigm has shifted to monetary and material success of the individual seemingly at the sacrifice of numerous values.
During the pulling of a wishbone, Homer, who has been constantly jealous of the material success of Ned Flanders and his family, wishes for The Leftorium to be a failure and go out of business.
Characterizing the Western attitude as one of struggle, the Chinese attitude as one of harmonization through adjustment, and the Indian attitude as escapist, Liang theorized that after World War I, Western culture was dominant; this phase, he claimed, would soon be replaced by another era, in which the Chinese way would adapt the material successes of the West to man's moral and ethical needs.
Otherwise, "picking your parents with care" will continue to be the best guarantee of material success for yet another cohort of our richer children, and we will continue to squander the hopes and capacities of so many of their less fortunate contemporaries.
Although he achieved renown in a number of different fields, ranging from geography and zoology to sociology and history, he shunned material success for the life of a revolutionist.
In his address to the 1964 Republican National Convention, which nominated him for president, Barry Goldwater spoke of "the many who look beyond material success for the inner meaning of their lives".
No one expects the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a man of education, intellect, talent and professional and material success to commit an act of violence.
Against the impulsive decision-making then prevailing in most of Latin America, local positivists sought to extend scientific thought to philosophy and political action, convinced it would promote objectivity, rational consensus, publicly accessible cumulative truth in all spheres, along the material success characteristic of modern science.
Indeed for the few of us who reach the peak of material success, the novelty of money wears off and they realize that they want something else out of life--just as Mo Ibrahim discovered shortly after he sold his telecommunications company, Celtel International, for $3.4 billion.
Some might say that the anger is merely jealousy of his professed material success and that of people like him (the real targets of this commercial).
