Word: greed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amazon-though quite comfortably on a friend's yacht. When his novel was published, one French critic flatly hailed it as "one of the masterworks of his generation." It is not that, but it is still one of the grimmest stories in some time of man's greed, his search for love, and his search for God. Readers had better take warning. Death in That Garden has its victories, but they are of the spirit. The bodies of its characters are shockingly served...
This novel has most of the elements of a fine murder mystery, but is written far better than most and leaves the reader with a wry, ironic aftertaste. Swiss Author Duerrenmatt showed Broadway, in The Visit, how an existentialist allegory of human greed and corruption can be made into exciting theater, especially if Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are on hand (TIME, May 19). The Pledge uses a grisly crime to show how a man's stubborn faith can be defeated by a combination of senseless accident and faithlessness on the part of his fellows...
...Visit. The Lunts enhancing a fascinating continental theater piece concerned with a rich woman's vengeful hate and a community that succumbs to greed...
Welcome to Our City was a sprawling four-hour dramatization of the cross-section of a Southern city caught in the frenzy of the predepression boom years. "Greed, greed, greed--deliberate, crafty, motivated--masking under the guise of civic associations for municipal betterment.... The standards of national greatness are Henry Ford, who made automobiles cheap enough for us all, and money, money, money...
...Visit brings the Lunts back to Broadway in an existentialist fable of a woman's vengeful hate and a whole community's greed...