Word: greed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East to wrest the sepulchre of Christ from infidel defilement stands in history as an everlastingly marvelous drama. Modern readers (and historians) don't quite know what to make of the Crusades. At best, they speak of a "miracle of faith," at worst of "blind fanaticism" mixed with greed. The word crusade is becoming fashionable again, but few 20th century men can imagine a faith as real, natural and all-inclusive as life itself, so that heroism and villainy, love and war, passion for God and passion for politics could all find room...
...badly enough, Jonson decided that "anything" was the answer, and worked it out in terms of wife-swapping, son-disinheriting, and general self-abasement. These are the pastimes of three confirmed lickspittles groveling after the fortune of a nouveau rich merchant. Each reaches a more advanced state of abject greed than his neighbor, and all an egged on by Volpone's social secretary, Mosca...
...Nufud Desert (where Asad was caught in a sandstorm without supplies and lost for three days). Threaded through the travelogues is a warm and enlightening picture of the world's second largest religion and its believers, who seem to Asad to be free of "those phantoms of fear, greed and inhibition that made European life so ugly...
Mustached God. Inevitably, the city's wealth aroused the greed of nearby hill tribes. Roses were no substitutes for swords and shields. The fierce Lucanians swept down and conquered the Greeks around 400 B.C., renaming the city Paiston. But the Lucanians soon became peaceful, were assimilated by the people they had conquered; the city prospered even after the Roman legions came in 273 B.C., and called it Paestum. But as the Roman Empire declined and malaria spread from the nearby swamps, Paestum died. By 800 A.D. it was a forest-shrouded ghost city. Forgotten, it was bypassed...
...young millionaire) for $300,000 on grounds that disfiguring injuries have ruined her daughter's budding career as a beauty queen and TV star. But two unexpected witnesses make depositions to set things right. Author Pratt lays on the human gore and displays a nice nose for human greed-shyster lawyers, crooked photographers and assorted vultures circling a big cash settlement. Probably the most absorbing safety lecture since J.C. Furnas'-And Sudden Death...