Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then you perceive the body of our kingdom/How foul it is, what rank diseases grow,/And with what danger, near the heart of it." The kingdom is sick. Violence, like wildfire, dances across the landscape. People die, choked by ringing hands of greed and indifference. Pain, suffering and death loom. The younger generation threatens to run away, choosing irresponsibility over the conformist greediness of the establishment. The kingdom is indeed sick, and no one seems willing nor able to save it. Sound familiar...
...Gelsey Kirkland, both in their radiant prime. But Balanchine's remains the standard. His hero and heroine are children, and the first act contains a party scene that is the heart of the piece. Deftly and smoothly, it teaches a timeless lesson in deportment: how a child's natural greed and anger are coaxed into poise and good manners...
There are likable characters and funny moments, even a ritual redemption in the poetic finale, but the dominant moods are treachery, betrayal, revenge and greed. The most beautiful words spoken are about the few hundred acres of land on which all the action unfolds -- so ablaze in spring that one character equates Moses' burning bush with a scarlet azalea -- yet it ends up despoiled and abandoned, wanted by no one save for the coal that lies beneath, and that can be reached only by scraping away the last remnants of soil, life and growth...
...difficult to prove that the raid was solely the product of greed, but the fact that the agents had obtained appraisals of the property before the incident may shed some light on the issue...
Back around the turn of the century, when official racism stood tall, Americans were capable of incredible generosity toward our "little brown brothers" overseas. Oh, without doubt, our foreign activities were often spurred by greed. But for the broad mass of people, whose support for such adventures was crucial, American imperialism represented a genuinely moral, Christian undertaking (this was before Christianity became unfashionable...