Word: greed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psychiatric Seismographs. Like many another experimental French novelist today, Nathalie Sarraute is trying to break away both from stereotyped Victorian emotions like honor, love and greed and from the equally crude Freudian categories of guilt and sexuality. Unlike the others, however, she has not retreated into eye-catching but sterile gimmickry-writing only about things and objective surfaces, for example, or offering as a novel a box of unnumbered pages. Instead, she has returned to the world of minute inner impulses, best explored in the past by Dostoevsky. Too delicate to be recorded on the rough seismographs of the psychoanalysts...
...constitutional requirements for the job-one of which is to be more than 20 years old." By now Goulart was busily circumscribing Pinto's authority, and Pinto resigned as a matter of duty-"the duty of being coherent at an hour when the demagoguery of some and the greed of others seem to prevail...
...kind of start, Astor never was headed. He poured liquor into the frontier areas on the theory that the trader with the whisky was certain of cornering the market. One by one, the independent dealers went out of business or merged with the American Fur Co. Astor's greed was enormous. If company furs were exported in his own ships, he charged the company for the freight. The trappers who supplied him had to buy their clothes and equipment at American Fur Co. posts at a 300%-to-400% markup. But Astor's personal fortune, which included enormous...
...treatment, even in the current cultural "thaw" on which Nikita Khrushchev seems to blow now hot, now cold. Other writers have fared much worse-or feared to try publishing at all. The Trial Begins, a brilliant satiric fantasy that treats life among party members as a grotesque nightmare of greed and hypocrisy, had to be smuggled out of Russia and printed under the assumed name of Abram Tertz. No one yet knows who the real author is. Soviet Writer Valery Tarsis, in The Bluebottle (Knopf), cavalierly compared the attitude of officials liquidating citizens to that of a man swatting flies...
Although at the time of his death domestic and international problems still bristled about him, what John Kennedy wanted more than anything else was to be re-elected next year. That desire did not spring from an unnatural greed for power, or even from his driving competitive spirit, but from his feeling that if he could be returned to the White House with a fresh and stronger mandate he would be better able to achieve solutions to the problems that beset his nation...