Word: coveteousness
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Quite by accident, they meet the last man on earth-an aged Adam, too feeble to father children. His prize possession is a windup Gramophone with one record, Roll Out the Barrel, a toy the girls covet. At his dwelling-the abandoned Hotel Ozone-the old lady enjoys one final, dreamlike dinner by candlelight. Then she dies, knowing that the race will die with her and with the girls she has overseen since their childhood. Her charges pack up to resume their wandering, and try to take the Gramophone with them. When the old man protests, they gun him down...
...most difficult decision for attackers is how much above the going market price to offer for stock they covet. In a study of 50 contested tender offers, Columbia University Professors Samuel L. Hayes III and Russell A. Taussig recently found that the average premium was 16%, though lower-priced stocks ($10 to $20) often required an extra sweetener...
Instant Negritude. Among the chosen Negroes who are not entirely uncritical of the fact that colleges now covet them, Cecilia McDaniel, an A student in Winston-Salem, N.C., sees her sudden popularity as a form of "reverse racism-an effort of schools to purge themselves of a longtime discrimination against Negroes." She was offered scholarships by Northwestern, Chicago and N.Y.U., probably will choose N.Y.U. because she is interested in drama, figures N.Y.U.'s Broadway-influenced drama department is "more practical" than Northwestern's. Judy Johnson, a bright, outspoken Richmond, Calif., girl, has been accepted by Stanford...
...Negroes covet white skin, all of them without exception seek after the white man's freedom of choice. The Rev. James Jones, the white Episcopal Urban Vicar of Chicago, who moved into a Negro ghetto, argues that Negroes will not live up to their full responsibilities and potentials as citizens until the white majority grants them that freedom. "In the ghetto," he says, "there are no choices, no power, no ability to make responses. Therefore there is no responsibility." Considering that the U.S. is the first society in history to adopt as its national goal the full economic integration...
Psychoanalysts argue that both sexes enter a sort of second adolescence in the mid-40s, but the male has more sexual options. A kind of reverse Oedipal tide may run. Where he once craved his father's power, he may now covet his teen-ager son's potency. The sight of a young couple embracing in the park stabs him with a pang of envy. Meanwhile, he mercilessly scrutinizes every sag, bulge, and wrinkle that makes his wife unappetizing. In The Revolt of the Middle-Aged Man, Dr. Edmund Bergler records the rebel's plaint: "I want...