Word: greed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freedom, we are not Republicans or Democrats; we are all Americans . . . But there are different ways of reaching that goal . . ." The way Harry thought the Eisenhower Administration was heading was clear. Said he: "I don't want to see anyone take us back to the old ways of greed and arrogance and indifference to the public weal which we rejected 20 years ago. Because I know, if those days return, we shall lose our strength at home and our moral leadership abroad, and the path will lead to depression and destruction...
...returning veteran of 1945 was a man of hope; his enemy was beaten, his target-Tokyo or Berlin-was reached. He was ready for a brave new world of peace and plenty. His younger brothers, resigned to the ugly old world of war and greed, shout no message. They argue about whether the war should have been started, whether it should have been carried into China or stopped at the 38th parallel, whether Van Fleet or MacArthur or the White House had the right solution-and they don't pretend to know all the answers. All that binds them...
...gets more said about the human condition than many a contemporary novelist gives forth in his entire output. For Author Pérez Galdós is bold enough to use the fine old materials of fiction as if he had just discovered them: love and lust, generosity and greed, envy and charity, understanding and pettiness. Poor Amparo is no figure in a Spanish soap opera; she is the universal woman who has sinned, under pressure of her own generosity and momentary passion, and is willing to pay. Even Polo, the unfrocked priest, is seen as a man whose...
...will work today that seeks mostly escape. No evangelism can be wholesome that speaks in spiritual terms alone. Today the whole man need be saved and creatively fulfilled . . . When we Methodists become evangelical we shall have a social gospel that snail make entrenched evil tremble, rationalized selfishness seethe, organized greed rail, but shall make the peoples of the earth rise up to call us blessed...
Burke saw man in "a state of nature" as a prey to his own evil, violence and greed. Civilization was the process of holding the evil in check by treasuring experience from generation to generation, slowly building upon those advances which seemed in harmony with God's will as to human order. "Temporary possessors and life-renters [must not be] unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity," Burke wrote. "By [the] unprincipled facility of changing the state as often . . . as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain...