Word: greed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie success, Sunset Boulevard. Miriam Hopkins had some big ravaged moments as the faded film star who is convinced that her public still clamors to see her on the screen, but James Daly was altogether too wooden as the young man whose mixed motives of pity and greed turn him into a gigolo and, eventually, a corpse. ABC's U.S. Steel Hour offered another TV version of Henri Bernstein's The Thief (Kraft TV Theater did the same play in 1952), with Paul Lukas, Diana Lynn, Mary Astor and James Deane. An old-school melodrama, The Thief tells...
Spiritual Greed. Everyone he meets lends force to the argument that all Christians were meant to "pray without ceasing." Like a self-helper by Norman Vincent Peale, The Way of a Pilgrim is crammed with appropriate case histories -a social gamut of unhappy people whose lives have been changed by the practice of interior prayer. Unlike a modern religious bestseller, though, the book does not suggest that he who prays will become healthier, wealthier or wiser-just happier...
...that, in the course of the day, time had been spent more in improving thought and talk than in the actual hidden prayer of the heart, then I was to think of it as a loss of the sense of proportion, or a sign of spiritual greed...
They were "awakened" by the Spaniards, who brought with them both Christianity and visions of wealth. What the incredibly brave and selfless friars brought in the way of spiritual enlightenment was sometimes more than offset by the greed and rapacity of the Spanish governors. For 200 years the Spanish slaughtered and the Indians massacred, but by 1700 the Pueblo Indians were finished as warriors. The Rio Grande enjoyed few stretches of real peace. What with the Indians, the U.S.-Mexican war and the raids of Pancho Villa, Horgan's pages are seldom free from violence...
...Greed & Folly. For all his excellence in telling the story, Historian Runciman finishes with a startling piece of moralizing hindsight: "The historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at ... the limitations of human nature. There was so much courage and so little honor, so much devotion and so little understanding. High ideals were besmirched by cruelty and greed, enterprise and endurance by a blind and narrow self-righteousness; and the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which...