Word: greeds
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...know it is a decadent prosperity, that of a civilization that has lost its way and can find security only in the worship of gold. It is as if Miamians were playing the final scene of an epic morality play in which, led astray by egocentrism, complacency, and boundless greed, those who dreamed of Miami as the tropical Zion destroyed the dream for themselves and for others. As a Coral Gables schoolteacher said after reading reports of the McDuffie riots, "We've got trouble in paradise, but Miami is no longer paradise...
...hypocritically criticize capitalism that provides this largesse for them," Gordon B. Worcester writes to his class. But Elliot, a lobbyist, emerges with an opposite view, "I reached the never-to-be-reversed conviction that Uncle Sam's taxing authority utilized to balance our economy by curtailing greed and dishonesty and developing social benefits and policies...was the only means which could effectively reverse the Depression and permanently carry forward the just, honest economy we ought to enjoy so as to maintain full employment...
...remarkable intensity. Picasso painted Gustave Coquiot, a fashionable Paris art and theater columnist, as a sinister god of urban pleasure, green shadows straining against red lips in a pale mask of a face. Some of the women, their faces blurred by laughter or squinched up into pug masks of greed, seem to predict by ten years the jittery misogyny of German expressionism. Woman in Blue, 1901, with her fierce little Aubrey Beardsley whore's head surmounting the dress of a Velázquez court portrait, is an especially compelling example...
...curtain raiser, is an African fable of greed, about a man who would rather be buried alive than part with a bone...
...might argue that the executives are there not to help the environment but to aid in its pillage, greasing the legislative and legal skids so companies don't have to worry about pesky environmentalists. But those skeptics forget that we stand on the verge of the Third Wave, when greed, much less table manners, will crumble before the rushing tide...