Word: greedfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheiks and oil potentates. Latin American businessmen, affluent overseas Chinese, Asian generals-all claimed a piece of the action. The central banks of many smaller nations with precarious national reserve margins, including some Communist Eastern European countries, had undoubtedly joined in to protect themselves. More in sorrow than in greed, European corporations moved into the buying to hedge their foreign-currency holdings. So did some wealthy Americans with numbered Swiss accounts, although it is illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold bullion...
...lecture tour in England, his Russian citizenship was taken away. He became a Greek national, and now lives in West Germany. The Pleasure Factory is his best book to date. It shows that he has read his Chekhov and Turgenev with profit-and that neither greed nor the other passions they wrote about have been abolished in the new Russia...
...quite convince the reader or himself that the profit motive alone was responsible for the routes of guilt that can be traced from the Gold Coast of Africa in 1441 to the riot-ripped cities of America in the summer of 1967. Beyond the simple, gory melodrama of greed, a margin of evil in human affairs still remains visible but unaccounted...
...advice: don't give up. A colleague of his, he reports, decided to trade the New York rat race for a Vermont farm. He soon "learned that paradise is an illusion. In the countryside as in the big city, he found adultery, incest, murder, fraud, brutality, stupidity, sloth, greed, hatred and bigotry...
...angle of vision is the leftism of the '30s, since it assumes that the root of all evil is economic. A 1939 audience would have understood the play as an attack on predatory capitalist morality. A 1967 audience is more likely to relish it as an indictment of greed, hate, and the Just for power at anytime, in any place...