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...Watership Down. It may also be attributed to the book's Botti-celliesque illustrations in which natural laws are suspended and the floating vistas of childhood are suffused with magic realism. But in the main, Masquerade's phenomenal rise can be credited to that basic human characteristic: greed...
With a permanent home in a politically noncontroversial setting, the Olympics might escape at last from much of the politics and greed that now contaminate one of humanity's earliest and best ideas. - Lance Morrow
IRONICALLY, CARTER has resorted to flag-waving in order to hide his domestic failures, when solutions to these very problems--particularly that of energy--would best cure America's foreign policy headaches in the Persian Gulf. The region is a vital American interest only because American greed has made it so. To impose an emergency energy plan, complete with gasoline rationing, would be a far stronger policy than to reinstitute draft registration...
...place" and music is dominated by "emotionless" composers like Pierre Boulez. But he refuses to join those readers of his first volume who saw him as a throwback to a better age. From his earliest years, he says, the world has shown him so much mistrust, hypocrisy and greed for power that he is not sure there ever was a Belle Epoque. More likely, with his talent, ebullience and "unconditional love of life," he has created his own epoch as he has gone along, a Rubinstein epoch. And a remarkable one it has been...
...have been steadily relinquishing their inhibitions about the social consequences of their actions. They have lost a crucial sense of community, even while highways, jets, satellite TV signals and leisure travel have brought them physically closer together. The social environment has grown polluted along with the natural; a headlong greed and self-absorption have sponsored both contaminations. Somehow, Americans have also misplaced the moral confidence with which to condemn sleaziness and stupidity. It is as if something in the American judgment snapped, and has remained so long unrepaired that no one notices any more...