Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard students are now powerless to effect real policy change. Most are infused with a sense of meaninglessness, with a sense that whatever we're doing helps no one, including ourselves, and that each person is more interested in the preservation of his or her ego than in his or her contribution to the community. This is not an indictment of Harvard students per se; it is a sketch of the spirit of American society today, a spirit resulting from the deliberate, persistent attempt to preserve the economic, social and political status quo at all costs...
...introduce the "rap" into the top 40. While the organ holds a chord, Hayes talks for as much as ten minutes-or sermonizes, as in his preamble to Never Can Say Goodbye: "We as humans have a tendency to let two things run away from us: our pride and ego." At first the raps were a way to get nightclub audiences quiet. Then they became a bridge between white men's songs (Hayes' favorites: Glen Campbell and Burt Bacharach) and black audiences. Of his 18-minute version of Campbell's By the Time I Get to Phoenix...
...solution. This costs $15,000 in the first year, when equipment must be purchased, but drops to about $5,000 a year thereafter. Home dialysis requires training in the use of the machine, however, and adjustment to the long hours of self-treatment. "This machine ruins your ego completely," says Dr. Eugene Hoffman Sr., senior medical adviser to Blue Cross of Southern California. "People who use it have nothing else to hang...
Other experts, though, question Gatewoods speed, and would vote for three less publicized receivers: Jerome Barkum, Jackson State, 6ft. 41n. 210 Ibs.. Mike Siani, Villanova, 6 ft. 3 in., 190 Ibs. and Tom Reynolds, San Di ego State...
Instead of failing in business by helping others in the ghetto, McLaurin said a black businessman's "first obligation is to be successful. To go back and help others is just massaging your ego," he said...