Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berman lampoons the growth of big, expensive hospitals-"Blue Cross Hiltons"-where you go "if you are deathly ill and want your body monitored by everything but a kind soul and a gentle hand." He is merciless about medical greed: "Any M.D. who has to worry about his tax bracket after only six months in practice is a folk hero to his peers." Moreover, he insists, even socialized medicine could not bring back the house call, end unnecessary tonsillectomies or make $5,000 operations a thing of the past. For his resourceful fellow physicians would "never allow the manner...
...Coal Rush, now practically a permanent way of life, will continue, Caudill assumes, as long as greed coexists with need-i.e., an energy crisis...
Defiant Dilemma. In fact, he offers no answers to this defiant dilemma. But he regards Appalachia as a microcosm of America. Unless deterioration can be stopped here, we will have proved ourselves an ungoverning and ungovernable people. If greed-and-need continues to dictate, Caudill predicts, strip mines will next "demolish the West as a viable ecosystem...
...place to be in Cambridge is in one of their long pews. Tonight they will run John Ford's autumn masterpiece The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin) at 7:30. Sunday night they will run Von Stroheim's chopped up but still incomparable Greed. There are those who think it is the greatest movie ever made. Or would have been if the front office hadn't gotten its hands...
...first major shock was the disproportionate number of young blacks with college degrees who were unemployed and turning to alcohol and drugs. It was also obvious that the arrogance and greed of the white community remained largely unchanged. My wife, who happens to be white, was able to observe some of this firsthand. There was a prevailing hostility toward blacks, but what was most shocking was the automatic assumption by whites that all other whites shared this hostility. What has been harder for my wife to accept is the hostility of the black community toward her. I'm beginning...