Word: greed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Board in 1966-67, who recently warned that Britain is "spot on course for disaster and still accelerating." He added: "Let me say quite clearly what I think disaster is. It is the destruction of the democratic and civilized life in this country by the continual rending of competitive greed at the fabric of society, fomented, encouraged and forced on its way by a leadership too incompetent or too lacking in resolution to provide the conditions in which we can avoid-in five years if we stick to our present course-finding ourselves at the mercy of some cheap dictatorship...
...turtling, an account of the dying days of sailing ships on unspoiled waters, and a history of a locale that winter tourists tripping through the Caribbean rarely see. Most memorably, it is a spare adventure tale about simple men driven to the extremities of pain and death by ignorance, greed, weakness and inexplicable fate. ∙Paul Gray
Eric Ambler has been charting the Middle East menace for years, sketching shabby cityscapes on the backs of greasy menu cards. The torpid and unheroic heroes of Ambler's books, however, scuttle wretchedly about, energized by greed and knowledge that their visas have expired. If repressive authority enters, it is in the person of an oxlike police corporal whose face bulges out of the top of a gray wool uniform that looks as if it had been boiled...
...spectacle of families with the remnants of their possessions being systematically loaded onto transport buses by teams of leather coated French police and the insistent pace of the action force the viewer to empathetic panic. From the blase anti-semitism of the police, the variations of concern, indifference and greed in the spectators, and the fatalism and disorientation of the Jews, a subtle portrait emerges of the historical actors and attitudes involved in the deportation...
...bring forth justice to the nations, to raise the oppressed, requires political change above all. This is the metanoia that must be undergone. The social and political structures that enslave and starve people must be repudiated. I believe this repudiation must be non-violent; but America's inaction, her greed and unwillingness to do justice to the starving will, I fear, made violent and world-wide revolution inevitable. Whether the world that results will be inhabitable, or whether the systems that will be created will be just and free ones, I do not know...