Word: greeding
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...never more than a few steps ahead of the Ironshirts, the brutal mercenaries ordered to find and murder the infant heir. In her search for a sanctuary where she can hide the boy and await the return of her lover from the imperial army, she meets with nothing but greed and hostility from the frightened peasants and rapacious lust from the soldiers. Her efforts to confront a culture of selfish barbarism with some compassion and decency only estrange her from her lover and mark her as a doomed woman in the eyes of the peasants. The act culminates...
...SUPPORTING players round out the organic unit of the group. They communicated the visceral meaning of a squalid poverty in their coarseness and their greed. The cast studied the peasant-figures of Breughel and Bosch when they first began to think about their characters during their own ten weeks of rehearsal, integrating their visual impressions with sensitivity exercises. The influence of the two artists can also be seen on the backdrop, which is essentially a giant scroll set on its side and rolled to different panels by the entering actors. Arnold Trachtman's black-and-white murals are intriguingly similar...
...produce the muddle in which man finds himself. God did not bring about the wars, the poverty, the diseases, the endless woes that afflict the human race. God did not sponsor the greed, the class division and the racial hatreds that seethe about us like unhealthy geysers. Let us not blame God for the corruption and callousness of public officials, for sickening slums, for thousands of drug addicts, for selfishness and stupidity...
...part, the headlines merely reaffirmed the humanity of the race, which in the space age remains as susceptible to greed and graft and the curse of Cain as it has been since the dawn of time. For the weak, temptation is ever at hand; for the brave, violence waits patiently in ambush. Beyond private sin, however, those who misuse public trust do a special evil. West Virginia and New Jersey seem to justify the theory of democracy that argues not that the people are virtuous enough to rule themselves, but rather that no man is ever virtuous enough...
...addition to freewheeling Pertamina, the army is involved in virtually every part of Indonesia's economy-usually less out of greed than sheer need. Under President Suharto's austerity budget, armed forces units are required to provide between 25% and 40% of their own support. To raise funds, the army recently announced plans to commercialize engineering and transport-in effect, hiring itself out as an Indonesian version of Hertz Rent A Car. Some other examples of military business enterprise...