Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent the past ten years investigating the nursing-home industry, they are often ignored, sometimes mistreated and generally exploited. Despite the $3.5 billion in federal, state and private funds that are poured into U.S. nursing homes each year, she writes in her recently published book Tender Loving Greed (245 pages; Knopf; $6.95), conditions in many homes are so bad that they constitute "a national scandal...
...American Romantics he bemoans the predicament of manufactured man and extolls "self-reliance" and "gumption" and the kind of knowledge that is not to be found in books but only at the cutting edge of experience. But Pirsig also recognizes that "self-reliance" has become the philosophy of American greed and reaction and that the familiar Romantic exhortations about experience and immediacy do not penetrate very far into technology nor into its scientific underpinning. For him the problem is that these two realms of knowledge stand opposed. The "scientific method" for all its contributions to modern life remains "emotionally hollow...
...Harvard Square, most surviving art, like most coffee, is big business. Many art galleries just can't make it. And the ones that do often find that success depends on selling out to supporters, greed or just plain bad taste...
...writes a love story as passionate as it is asexual. Old age, she suggests, is a wicked spell cast upon lovers and life lovers, and she stocks her story with appropriate witches and ogres-a Lesbian nurse concealing a record as an abortionist, a nursing-home manager smarmy with greed and Bible-Belt piety...
...works up a mannered creature with bulging eyes and squeaking voice who never suggests Daisy's strength, her greed, or even her gaiety and charm...