Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When, after another illness, the musicologist moves into the town, Devil concentrates on life outside the walls. Now the assorted evils of everyday life in the world are seen in contrast to monkish goodness. Truly the devil rides outside, where spite, greed, hatred (and again & again sexual temptation) plague and disgust the hero...
...priests, says Don Ardito. "Compromise, moderation, restrained zeal, a constant effort to be 'human' and please the general public, all these mixed in with personal greed and jealousy-isn't that the portrait of the average priest? . . . How many of us priests ... act as if the truth we preach were a spiritual reality, not a mere symbol...
...that point, the victory-scouting Ike forces would not conceivably have compromised, yet Clarence Brown, looking back on the convention, blames it all on Cabot Lodge's insatiable greed for delegates. "He wanted to take it all," Brown mutters, "he wanted to take...
...play is generally recognized as being highly moralistic and semi-religious in nature, dealing with the wages of sin and greed...
...desire to see the already existing friendly relations between Iran and England grow more & more every day, and I have always attempted to preserve these good relations. However, to my great regret, the lust and greed of those individuals who have been beneficiaries of the former Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. have complicated the situation so much that the Iranian Government has not been able, so far, to make any small sales transaction on its oil. They have the wrong notion in their minds that by bringing economic pressure upon Iran, they can make us submit to being longer exploited...