Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is intended as summer-weight entertainment. The most curious of these is a certain unconscious-or is it semiconscious?-racism. The crowd pursuing the almost-heroin is composed entirely of black men, and their interest in sexually tormenting Ms. Bisset is at least as powerful as their greed for the drug. She is cast as a nice innocent kid trying to spend a quiet week in Bermuda with her boy friend. Out scuba-diving, they discover tantalizing clues to both treasures. Very soon she is being forced to strip in front of the assembled baddies, though she could...
...rapid self-enrichers seem to be motivated by greed. It seems more likely that they recognize "money, pur et simple," in Bagehot's phrase, as the shortest, speediest route to public recognition, self-esteem and power-or, simply, security in a threatening world...
Dickens' story takes place in Coketown, where workers spend 14 hours a day in the factories and the rest of the time in their grim hovels. The owners clothe their greed in the high-toned words of utilitarianism, the philosophy of the time: what works is good, and good is what works...
...missed out, or forgot." It takes Mr. Sleary (Harry Markham), the disreputable owner of a circus, and Sissy (Michelle Dibnah), the daughter of a clown, to explain the lessons of dreams and imagination. Hard Times is the story of Louisa's slow tutelage - against the backdrop of Victorian greed and despair...
...deigned to look at their discovery until after 1551 when the wool market in Antwerp fell apart. The first plantations were get-rich-quick schemes, the colonists left to fend for themselves if they did not produce a quick return on investment. Occasionally, as the book amply illustrates, the greed was enlivened by some remarkable characters, like the 18th century Governor of New York, Lord Cornbury, a flaming transvestite who prowled his fort in women's finery...