Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes to mind as a metaphor because of the character Algernon's good-natured gluttony. While he and his friend Jack ponder the mess they have gotten themselves into by proposing to their beloveds under the false name of Ernest, Algy pops countless muffins into his mouth with fastidious greed. It is in such moments that the story of their romantic complications (resolved only after everyone has said a lot of terribly clever things) sows its comic seeds and reaps its harvest of laughter. The production succeeds because its cast and crew passionately commit themselves to being passionlessly and uncommittedly...
...TIME describes the aura of greed in present-day Washington [April 2] but fails to explain the cause. The men at the top are essentially havenots, parvenus using the White House to further their personal ambitions...
...Finch) is a sort of nonpartisan lobbyist for peace who is persuaded to abandon his political pursuits in the outside world and become the Grand Kleagle of Shangri-La. There he will receive the victims of international holocaust with warmth and tolerance. That the world will be consumed by greed and violence seems an odd notion for such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley, Methuselah-like longevity, and Burt...
...will also establish official control over Western publication of works that appear in Russia. Such works were previously in the public domain, and Western houses felt free to print what they chose. Says U.S. Copyright Lawyer Alan U. Schwartz: "The Soviets may now presume to play on the commercial greed of our publishers by offering special deals. We must be very careful to prevent the Soviets from using their copyright to suppress some of the finest works of Russian literature...
...next month, the paper hopped up again to skewer Von Hoffman's critical description of Republican partying at the Miami convention: "If some [of the delegates] appeared to be affluent, well, so do some syndicated columnists." When Von Hoffman recently blamed the nationwide energy crisis on the greed of oil, gas and coal industries, the Trib retorted on the same day: "Danger: dilettante at work." So far, the paper has quarreled with the columnist (whose regular base is the Washington Post) five times. Trib Editorial Page Chief John McCutcheon reasons that Von Hoffman's views might otherwise...