Word: greed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really understand what the author meant by this play, you have to know more than the facts of her life--you have to know the perspective from which she wrote it. This was the perspective of the wise adolescent who had begun to see the black humor in the greed and the cheating and the family quarreling at the Sunday dinner table...
Volpone. If all this Americana is beginning to stick in your throat, get away from it all and go see this classic satire by Shakespeare's old drinking buddy Ben Jonson Jonson lets his venom loose on greed a timeless subject that's usually good for a chortie or two. There's a character named Sir Politic Wouldbe. Presented by the Public Theater outdoors under the stars by the Charles at 1175 Soldiers Field Road in Auston. Tomorrow and Saturday at 8:30, tickets a reasonable one book...
...would be willing to admit that there is more at work here than sheer greed. The Bicentennial Commission's decision to split the festivities between a number of cities was of course a politic one--maximize the number of places where people can spend money, spread the wealth, and make everyone happy except maybe a few crackpot citizens who don't want hordes of tourists tramping over their community). But it was also an appropriate decision because it recognized the need to bring into all this Bicentennialia as many people as possible. If you don't bring them in, they...
...Alaskan, I have a ringside seat at the tragedy that is unfolding here [June 2]. Men of greed will exploit and plunder this beautiful land. I am not against progress, but based on man's past performance I can only see disaster looming...
...many cases, what they have done, for whatever reason, amounts to abandonment. Mary Adelaide Mendelson, of Cleveland, a former community-planning consultant, has spent ten years studying institutions for the aged. Last year, in a book titled Tender Loving Greed, she concluded that U.S. nursing homes are a national scandal. She writes: "There is widespread neglect of patients in nursing homes across the country and evidence that owners are making excessive profits at the expense of patients...