Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find our progress limited and our security threatened by the unbridled greed of organized labor, against which our laws provide little or no protection...
...best of modern mysteries equal or outrank the run-of-the-rental-shelf "straight" novel in almost every department-plotting, characterization, background. They are novels of emotional conflict, in unusual settings, books that wrestle with the problems of frustration or greed or success. The traditional hole in the victim's head is often added as a sort of casual dividend. Seasonal items...
...these depths that I have sought, and seek, to penetrate." Yet he does not confuse himself with the master. Of his own pictures, says Rosenberg: "Whatever their fate, I am content. My landscapes are magic carpets on which I have flown from a world embittered by fear, hate and greed to regions of peace, joy and beauty. For which I humbly give thanks...
Murray noted with alarm the "flood of discontent and self-depreciation these days" and the "mythology of the mass media--a mythology of pride, greed, and envy." To deal with this deplorable situation, Murray urged the formation of a new mythology, to be embodied in a "truly new testament," a kind of Bible for modern times...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Out of the Dust, a tough story about the Old West by the late Lynn (Green Grow the Lilacs) Riggs, gives Charles Bickford, Uta Hagen and Wayne Morris a workout in jealousy, greed and patricide...