Word: greed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moral reflection, in Goya's prints and not a few of his paintings, moves from being a philosophical exercise into a sort of frenzy, a despairing assault on a world of terminal evil. Greed, whoring, pederasty, witchcraft and the religious bigotry that was its mirror image, the brutality of the low and the myopic arrogance of the high, and above all the limitless cruelties inflicted in the name of orthodoxy (by the Inquisition) and political conquest (by the invading French and their guerrilla opponents): these possess him as they have possessed no other artist before or since. Seen through...
...words. Nothing flashy or particularly memorable. Just good, plain talk from the heart. And a departure: if George Bush signaled anything by proclaiming a "new breeze," it was a new altruism, a move away from the Reagan era's tacit approval of selfishness, an end to the glorification of greed. "Use power to help people," said the 41st President. "We are not the sum of our possessions . . . We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend...
...homelessness and illiteracy have never seemed more menacing. Instead of vigorously attacking these problems, Reagan has continued to espouse his laissez-faire philosophy that the market or private individuals will solve them, leaving only national defense to the government. So far, this free-market approach has generated mostly record greed and selfishness, rather than solutions...
...every other criterion than that of greed, Harvard Real Estate's hotel plans are painfully foolish. At a time when the Harvard-Radcliffe population desperately needs space and security, HRE is turning University land over to transient strangers. Everyone knows that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences does not have enough space for it teachers to write or teach adequately. There is almost no place where faculty below the associate level can sit in quiet and privacy and think--a process necessary for the writing with which we earn tenure, another fact the University has forgotten. Most of us have...
...decade too often marked by selfishness and greed, a growing legion of & "Samaritans" is devoting time, energy and imagination to aiding others. -- Tight airline security measures go into effect as the hunt for the bombers of Pan Am Flight 103 begins...