Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are only two emotions in Wall Street: fear and greed. For most of 1977, we had an excess of fear. The last few days, greed has come back with a vengeance." -William M. LeFevre, vice president of Granger & Co., Manhattan brokers...
...students on the basis of their ability to manage a $1.4 billion endowment. Harvard chooses students who values the academic goals of morality, truth, and beauty. By teaching students how such goals are more important than profit and power, Harvard guarantees that its students will never repeat the criminal greed of U.S. corporations now in South Africa. Partisan agitation on the part of undergraduates is secondary to the achievement of a deeper understanding of ethics, science, and esthetics. And it is probably premature. --Susan Esser '79 The Student Polemical Society
...greed seals the fate of Mother Courage, the lens of the telescope determines the destiny of Galileo. Apart from Socrates' drinking the hemlock, the most vivid martyrdom of truth in the memory of civilized Western man is Galileo's recantation before the Italian Inquisition. The difference between the two is that Socrates could have fled from Athens and refused to do so, and Galileo could have refused to recant but chose to do so. Out of Galileo's dilemma and choice, Brecht fashioned a play of high moral intelligence and lasting pertinence. Unlike some of Brecht...
...certain vulgar energy, but even that has congealed as he respectfully confronts this "classic," and he seems to have communicated only that to his actors. As Marlowe, Robert Mitchum seems merely weary. Sarah Miles and Candy Clark, as the rich, spoiled and sexy sisters who inspire so much greed in others, as well as James Stewart, Oliver Reed, Richard Boone, John Mills, Joan Collins and Edward Fox, as assorted villains, victims and cops, all seem to be doing turns in a variety show rather than acting in an intelligently integrated drama. The result is a movie that lurches unsteadily from...
...capital city there is ambition and greed because the presidency is the seat of power and power attracts people who are seeking power for themselves, he said...