Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirit that stayed there . . . and could not fly forth." According to Kansas' famed Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, hope has stayed there, cowering and crouching, too much of the time from Hesiod's day until now. To this fact, as much as to the evils of "selfishness, vengefulness, hate, greed, cruelty, destructiveness and even self-destructiveness," which Pandora released, Dr. Menninger lays many of mankind's troubles...
...paralysis could be traced, in a way, back to the U.S. Air Force, but even leftist critics, who have been successful in forcing the U.S. to abandon its $500 million complex of bases in Morocco, were hesitant about putting the blame on the Americans. The real villain was the greed of a few Moroccan businessmen...
...were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series; a bewildered newsboy went to Outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Obstinacy at the bargaining table and dishonesty on the air waves, Ike went on, are reminders that "selfishness and greed . . . occasionally get the ascendancy over those things that we like to think of as the ennobling virtues of man-his capacity for self-sacrifice, his readiness to help others...
Three crippling industry-wide strikes have been imposed on us by the steel, copper, and dock workers. Nearly all of us are workers, but we can recognize greed when we see it. Clearly none of these strikes are justified this year...
...literature registers a milestone this week: Flem Snopes is dead. His death in The Mansion closes a William Faulkner trilogy that stands alone in U.S. writing for its wild, weird comedy, its savage indictment of rapacity and greed, its haughty indifference to the reader's bewilderment as he tries to follow some of the most obscurely motivated characters in any literature. The Hamlet (TIME, April i, 1940) and The Town (TIME, May 6, 1957) proved that the Snopeses were never far from Faulkner's mind even as he was writing other books that...