Word: greedfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tools (that's all factories are) remain innocent and the ethics of greed aren't necessary. Computers render the principles of wage-labor obsolete by incorporating them...
Wylie directs his fire at many ills deserving censure: slums, greed, ignorance, spreading violence and assorted immoralities. What Wylie wants, in his calmer moments, is fair enough: more regard for ecology, less plundering of natural resources, higher ethical standards all the way from suburbia to government. He may even be right when he says that modern man is "surely crazier than we realize." But he undercuts his own arguments by his hysterically hectoring tone. Christians, he writes, "made all the world a hell." He testifies he has seen scientists at work who are "corrupt, mindless, ignorant...
...decides, of course, to take the second alternative. He is imperious and gay, kindly and cruel-and he knows his enemy. Yet his special mixture of idealism and cynicism makes a poor weapon against the greed, ignorance and envy of his political foes. His subjects look upon him as a god, and soon, the reformer begins to see himself that way too. It is the beginning of his doom...
...hand wringers. Heinrich Boll (Billiards at Half-Past Nine) constitutes a school of his own. His writing skills seem at first oldfashioned, but they always turn out to be just right for hitting his targets: hypocrisy, his countrymen's haste to forget the Hitlerite period, the greed of the fat-cat crowd. In this short caper, set in today's Rhineland, a German army Jeep is burned by an intelligent young soldier with the active help of his equally intelligent father. The act is deliberate and they offer no defense at their trial. German courtroom justice, the army...
...Greed's tempermental director Erich von Stroheim, known when acting as "the man you love to hate," consistently made films Paramount considered too long and too morbid. The Merry-Go-Round was taken away from him and completed by Rupert Julian (The Phantom of the Opera), and no one knows how much was shot by Stroheim; The Wedding March, originally almost four hours, was halved, the second half, Honey-moon, never released and probably non-existent...