Word: greed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...People following greed are funny,' says Kramer. "It's the best basis for a big chase." Maybe. But the great screen comedians-Chaplin, Keaton, Langdon Fields-lightened their essays on human folly with the inspired lunacy that makes art. Kramer offers the harshly realistic image of greed itself, and simply tops it off with wisecracks. His cast cannot match the physical style of Mack Sennett, and Mad World's substitute for wit is the flaccid humor of insult. In dozens of roadside hassles, Ethel Merman as Berle's nerve-shattering mother-in-law begins almost every...
Kefauver's investigations of racketeering and organized crime in 1951 made him a national figure. His true quarrel, though, was not with the gangsters and thugs, freakish vestiges of the Prohibition experiment; it was with a more subtle kind of greed, the greed of huge industrial combines and arrogant bureaucrats masked by respectability, or worse, by legality. He never accepted the idea that wealth and power are synonomus with virtue, and he fought monopoly and privilege on every level. On the issue of civil rights, he displayed his customary courage and independence...
...Greed & Gouging. Even before men first started haggling in medieval marketplaces, philosophers and scholars have struggled to define fair profit. ACcording to some interpretations, the Calvinists first began to glorify work and profit, and later the Puritans considered it a moral duty for a person to choose the most profitable occupation he could. Yet there were limits to what was considered a fair return; in 1644, one Robert Keane, a pillar of the church in Boston, was fined ?200 for making more than sixpence profit on the shilling (12d). Businessmen, who work hard to maximize their profits, nonetheless constantly fear...
...this girl is telling the truth, then I am guilty. My case must depend on saying this girl is lying." Drumming nicotine-stained hands on the dock rail, Ward declared that Christine, Mandy and half a dozen other witnesses who testified against him were motivated by malice or greed. He cried, "Anyone who comes in from the street can come forward and say I am lying...
...workers to serve as medical guinea pigs. Ruprecht is a kind of lago beyond the reach of life-and the credibility of the reader. If he is meant to represent all those people who were corrupted by making an accommodation with the Nazis, his motivation is too simple. Pure greed does not sufficiently account for all of Ruprecht's vices...