Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focused on personal success," Hart said. "As usual when the pendulum swings, it swung too far. I would say the metaphor for the eighties was personal greed and debt...
...card-carrying baby boomer, I take this death personally. Not that I ever was really a yuppie, of course. But walking the greed-locked streets of Manhattan at the dawning of the new age of avarice, I felt like John Reed in Moscow in 1917. A revolution in human consumption patterns was under way, and I was on the barricades, ordering grilled tuna with sun-dried tomatoes, an arugula-and-radicchio salad, an insouciant Chardonnay and cappuccino...
...uttered with a slight sneer. Slowly, it starts to be used as an adjective modifying the noun greed...
...butter for last. It was a chocolate orgasm. It satisfied my desires. But what about the consequences? I mean, two Reeses Peanut Butter Cups were well on their way through my digestive system, and, in my hand, I held what was left. I felt awfully guilty. Guilty for my greed, guilty for my poor diet, but, mainly, guilty for producing what was, with respect to the foodstuff it had contained, a lot of garbage...
...demagogue-bard says the infidel will swim in his own blood, then words have pre-empted the work of armies. Ambiguity has an ancient history in the West, but the Middle East has its special genius for mirage. There, the dreariest, basest impulses go dressed up in poetry. Aggressive greed may swagger around as jihad. "Arab dignity and honor" shine in the mind with a radiant life of their own, forever beleaguered and violated and crying for revenge -- visions really, not things to be struggled toward, to be earned...