I left thinking that if many a hustler had access to official products in legitimate businesses with respectable connections – and without the street-level risks – they would quickly make their fortunes.
In a letter to Public Opinion, a Dublin newspaper, he announced "with inflexible materialistic logic, and to the extreme horror of my respectable connections, that I was an atheist".
As any number of recent scandals in the business world remind us (Enron, anyone?), the freedom of businessmen with good connections and respectable facades to pursue their ruthless ends unpestered by moral qualms, to say nothing of legal consequences, is a story that remains as fresh as tomorrow's stock options.
The right is laden by nepotism, dominated by particular families with respectable surnames, by privilege and by connection.
But in the end, Wickham never does get his comeuppance for deceiving the family; he marries 15-year-old Lydia so her family continues to financially support them, and Darcy uses his connections to help Wickham secure a respectable career.
She was born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson into an obscure and dubiously respectable middle-class Parisian family, albeit one with grand connections.
As he became a very rich and almost respectable man, many young people saw his wealth and glitzy connections as a model and had little idea of his past.
Inspired by this personal connection, Shenk makes a failed attempt to become a respectable player in his late 30's.
Like Almirante in Italy, Schönhuber strove to give his party a more respectable image, and his efforts extended to denying his own previous connection with the Waffen-SS.
In 1979, he founded the Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell; he has headed the American Coalition for Traditional Values; and had close connections with the Reverend Moon's Unification Church (when Moon was still respectable).
But Lotze saw no connection between the rightful rejection of empty, and hence, un-scientific notions, on the one hand, and respectable, metaphysical concepts proper, on the other.
