Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aggressive Church and absolute monarchy. The tragic and absurd position of the Grandees remained much as they are described in Don Quixote. But it was the people instead of the nobility who now played the exaggerated gallants, in imitation of the upper classes. Superficially Goya's criticisms of foppery, greed, or ignorance are typical of enlightened 18th century humor. But no one can fail to sense the darker moralism, especially in the demoniac fantasy of the second half of this set. The satire is direct when compared to the Proverbs, yet the allusions to man's bestiality go beyond simple...
...under Israeli fire, Nasser, as he later wrote, reflected: "Here we are in these foxholes, surrounded, in danger, thrust treacherously into a battle we were not ready for our lives the playthings of greed, conspiracy and lust which have left us here weaponless under fire." Said a comrade, "Gamal, the front is not here, it is in Cairo." Nasser turned to the front, plotted a revolution, toppled a king and rose to be ruler of Egypt's 22,500,000, the most powerful, most energetic and potentially most promising leader among the long divided, long misled Moslems...
...have been its fabulous mines of law, politics and social (including economic) organization. The abundance of material things -the bales of cotton, bushels of corn, ingots of steel-is a byproduct of these three primary riches, not the take from a geographic roulette wheel or the hoard of materialist greed. Today's drive of the U.S. Negro toward equality is as strong as any social tide in Asia or Africa or Europe. At the centers of those other drives for change stand agitators, conspirators, men of violence. The strength and flexibility of the U.S. Constitution make possible the fact...
...learned that sacrifice was not necessarily a kindness, and that kindness was itself more important . . ."). One result is that men and women of inherited privilege, who change only slowly, are far less sharply drawn than his self-made types, who thrust through the community on the drive of their greed, hate and hope. When action finally and awesomely explodes, the upper-crusters crumble to bits. An old steelworker's sons, the power-vaunting Bart Mijack and his murderous brother, destroy their family, their union, their community and, in a last, lurid, mountain-top climax, their own lives. This...
...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...