Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Handlin calls Gore Vidal's Burr and 1876 "inventions that disguised the poisonous portrayal of the early Republic in a fantastic tale of corruption, greed and sex." In a chapter entitled "The Diet of a Ravenous Public," Handlin rips the 'factional' historians to shreds. He assails Ragtime, calling "racial prejudice the crutch on which the book limps along," and renders equal treatment to critics that lapped...
...years Pavarotti has kept up a murderous schedule. He thrives on the love and adulation that pour over the footlights in waves. Doubtless, too, as one colleague observes, "greed is an element in it." But in 1975, the plane in which Pavarotti was returning from the U.S. crashed during its landing at the Milan airport and broke in two. Pavarotti and the rest of the passengers were, as he saw it, miraculously spared. Whether as a result of the crash or not, Pavarotti seems to have made some kind of peace with mortality...
...street opposite Lawrence's home. He is convinced they have "studied" every member of his family down to his eight grand children. He has survived more than a dozen shootouts with high-powered guns He has been offered bribes up to $250,000 "The whole thing is greed," he snorts "You have to meet 'em head...
...legislatures at the rate of over 100,000 a year inevitably mean more lawsuits. Too many lawyers use their skills to drag out cases. The object may be to wear down a less well financed opponent, or put off an unfavorable judgment. Sometimes it is simply a matter of greed, of contriving any excuse to keep fees rolling in. Favorite devices include making endless pretrial motions on one or another point of procedure, obtaining postponements (continuances) from the court, requesting huge amounts of information from the other side in the pretrial discovery process, or just burying the case in paper...
LeBoutillier dislikes Harvard enough to write a book about it but not enough to leave. He returns to the Business School, where he identifies greed and a "Big Business Mentality." That even makes some sense, until he tries to connect it to the "Liberal Mind" he knew as an undergraduate...