Word: greed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Howard Bay's sets capture the gondola-and-moonlight atmosphere of Venice while avoiding the stereotyped gondolas-and-moonlight. The scenery is unusually attractive in its own right, particularly one shell-like backdrop--and yet it suggests the absurd opulence and greed which the play satirizes...
...tarde, her fifth, was a considerable success in existential circles. It is a success based not on wit, wisdom or literary grace but on the unpleasant pleasure many people find in watching someone else behave shamelessly. Violette Leduc, shameless to the point of masochism, confesses to her greed and petty thievery, her gluttony, her love of begging and pleading, her torturing of others, her self-obsessive use of sex. "Violette Leduc weeps, exults, and trembles with her ovaries," writes Simone de Beauvoir in her introduction. Ovaries may not be exactly the word, but there is plenty of weeping and trembling...
Output per man hour has failed to rise as rapidly in Britain as in other industrial nations because of the restrictive practices of management and labor. In recent years, British businessmen have failed to take advantage of modern marketing techniques and technology. They have scorned the pecuniary greed and impersonal corporate empires of the Americans. The trade unions have remained divisive, decentralized and doctrinaire; labor has inhibited rather than encouraged attempts to increase economic efficiency. As a result, the country's goods have been outpriced abroad, and Britain has consumed beyond her means...
...Royal Hunt Shaffer has tackled some of man's profoundest problems: God, Faith, Hope-Despair, Joy-Pain, Greed, Honor. In the Introduction to the printed text, he states some of his premises: "What is most distressing for me in reading history is the way man constantly trivialises the immensity of his experience" the way, for example, he canalises the greatness of his spiritual awareness into the second-rate formula of a Church-any Church..... To me, the greatest tragic factor in history is man's apparent need to mark the intensity of his reaction to life by joining a band...
...barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever to be sighted. In this indignant, touching book, Allan W. Eckert, author of The Great Auk, details the wanton greed that extinguished this remarkable species and imagines a biography for the last wild survivor that died that morning on the Scioto...