Word: greed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing so. Says Morgenthau: "It is certainly a paradox that the U.S.S.R. so feared the Chinese that they came to break with their fellow Communists rather than continue to supply them with goods that would make them an industrial power, while Western industrial nations-through their blindness and greed-substituted their goods for what the Russians have...
Galt, the namesake of the club, is a fictional hero of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged who ran away from society to form his own "Utopia of Greed." Members of the Circle emphatically deny similar intentions, and said that the name was chosen because "Galt represents the principle of rational self-interest fundamental to objectivism...
...there is a need for a mystical body such as the Roman Catholic Church, then it cannot be democratic. In the ideal democracy every man celebrates the continuous mystery of himself at the altar of his own divinity. In a world oriented to incentives, gain, self-aggrandizement and sanctified greed, there is an urgent need for a mystical, symbolic figure, which the role of Pope fulfills...
...that leaves viewers wishing they had seen the play instead. On the screen, it is little more than a melodrama. On Broadway, as an unforgettable vehicle for the Lunts in 1958, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's drama drilled annihilating satire into a spare, pitiless tale of vengeance and greed...
...road to espionage is rarely paved with good intentions. Most of the "agents" working the dark corners of the cold war were lured there by simple greed or forced there by blackmail. But in the case of French Spy Georges Paáques, the motive was sheer do-goodism, complicated by a dash of intellectual vanity...