Word: greedfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expense of the others, including his fiancee. Ethel Gee sounded brusque and matronly as she protested she was just a silly little fool who had been under Houghton's thumb. The Lord Chief Justice scornfully told her: "I think you acted, not out of blind infatuation, but for greed." Each was sentenced to 15 years...
...outlawed. In St. Francis' Fioretti, you see the same processions of criminals, lepers, the exiled and the tortured, that Dolci writes of in his angry indictments of the island's society. For St. Francis, these were the beloved of God, chosen by him to atone for the greed and spiritual bankruptcy of their fellows. But for Dolci, the outcasts of Sicily are simply a monument to men's obliviousness of one another...
...Greed v. Mother Love. In Mother Courage (1939), one of his most popular plays and possibly his best, Brecht exhibits the raffish-human strain, and doctrine is relatively in abeyance. Mother Courage is an earthy female Falstaff with Falstaff's coarsely skeptical views of war, honor and courage. However, the Thirty Years' War is on, and since the profit motive is no laughing matter, Mother Courage cashes in on the troops. Trundling her wagon, a kind of mobile 17th century PX, behind the shifting battlefronts, she sells shoes, shirts and booze to the soldiers...
...over the cashbox. His captors are bribable, but Mother Courage haggles too long over the price, and the boy dies before the firing squad. Just before, Mother Courage has implied that she will do anything to save her son. It is characteristic Brechtian cynicism to stage a contest between greed and mother love, and have greed...
...days of Balzac and Galsworthy, the novel could legitimately deal with a businessman's success (through ambition and thrift) or with his failure (through greed, circumstance or the follies of love). A distinctly American contribution to the art of fiction is the discovery that success is failure. In the first 500 novels devoted to this notion, the unimpeachable moral that a man may lose his soul while making money proved reasonably arresting, but by now, the theme has become an overpowering bore and need no longer be written; it can be assembled from the fictioneer's clich...