Word: greedfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for a villain, if it fails elsewhere, can always rely on the speculators to conveniently stand as whipping boys for public indignation. The moral implication always runs, "Had it not been for their greed..." But even the speculators can be excused. Greed and avarice are fairly common human motivations, and it is a bit foolish--as well as futile--to ask financiers to exercise exemplary moral restraint...
...physical pain, for the ordeals involved in creating motion pictures honestly, unhampered by union restrictions, production supervision, and general professional laziness. Many statements, among them Nancy Carroll's memoir of shooting MGM's The Water Hole in the heart of Death Valley (the casualty rate approaching Stroheim's for Greed, the most famous horror story of Death Valley's filming), suggest strongly that the first American film-makers willingly demanded a verisimilitude unknown to most of today's artists. Brownlow quotes the great French director Abel Gance (La Roue, Napoleon...
...greed and viciousness of the "great" American public will never cease to amaze me. It has devoured the lives of two Kennedys and is reacting like a spoiled child because it failed to consume a third life for its own pleasure...
...hindsight of history, Director Tony Richardson sees the event in another light. His film version of The Charge of the Light Brigade, based in part on Cecil Woodham-Smith's brilliant study, The Reason Why, is a polemical attack on the futility of war and the fallout of greed, blunder and carnage that follows...
Chosen Nation. What does it take to build an empire? Will to power? Greed? Not in De Riencourt's book. Historically, the true empire builder, he thinks, is motivated by "an idealistic longing," a faith in universal law, a passion for a "common culture." He is more in the spirit of a missionary than of Genghis Khan. De Riencourt quotes Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana speaking half a century ago: "God has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally...