Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named Bennie (Warren Dates), who tickles the ivories in some dive far into the bowels of Mexico. Once long ago Paulette "Goddard came into the joint and requested a tune, but the place has gone downhill since then. Bennie still keeps a bleary lookout for a buck, and his greed and desperation get him hooked into a feudal revenge scheme to track down a certain Alfredo Garcia and separate him from his head. Bennie does not ask who specifically requires Alfredo's head; such matters are of secondary importance...
...between the pattern of crimes and the rising standard of living in the Soviet Union has not been overlooked. Writing in Komsomolskaya Pravda (Young Communist), Political Scientist Vladimir Kudryavtsev noted that "one occasionally hears that once a society has achieved affluence, crimes for gain disappear. However, as Aristotle observed, greed can also be engendered by prosperity. When examining the motives of crime for gain, we cannot automatically attribute them exclusively to relics of the past. Today, a number of 'accretions of the present,' so to speak, are to be observed...
...Pangs of Greed. This small novel leaves Muhlbach dangling between pleasure and despair. Packed with pre-Columbian arcana (Connell himself is a collector), it conveys the joyous release that absorption in a stern hobby can bring. Something alien has penetrated Muhlbach's life and opened vistas he can never exhaust. Not certain whether his response is to beauty or authenticity, Muhlbach nonetheless responds. Yet he is aware of some disquieting side effects: increasing pangs of greed for what he can appreciate but not afford, a habit of judging people by their acquisitions -and of being judged and found wanting...
...with the games is an anxious, sweaty thing-like the fever dream of a dull-witted materialist. As an experience, it is far less resonant than watching those former targets of cheap-shot cultural critics, the soap operas. At least the soaps deal with a few emotions other than greed. The quiz shows, one cannot help concluding, are just one more thing from which the American woman deserves to be liberated...
...federal court on charges of bribery and other crimes-but in any case it was largely beside the point. It has long been obvious that the real and profound corruption of the Nixon Administration consisted of the abuse of power and the violation of the Constitution rather than mere greed...