Word: self
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Williams and Siegel are generals in the new radio army, there are plenty of eager lieutenants vying for attention. Mark Williams, who came to San Diego's XTRA-AM from Phoenix last July, ticks off his on-air crusades with self-promotional relish. "In Phoenix," he relates, "I killed an antiabortion bill in the house by one vote, going on the air a couple of hours before and giving out the phone numbers of undecided legislators. I also managed to put together a spousal-rape...
...nation's student uprising, now three weeks old, has thrown official China into confusion. Having failed to carry out its threat to crack down on the immense student march that engulfed Beijing two weeks ago, the government last week launched a soft offensive, blitzing the public with self-serving propaganda in support of its policies. When the leaders of the new independent student union announced that they would go ahead with a march across the capital on May 4, the 70th anniversary of the birth of China's student movement, the newly pliable bureaucrats indicated that they would not interfere...
...true for some of the palagis, or foreigners, on the island. At American Samoa Community College, Philip Grant gamely leads Laborday Fatali and a group of other flamboyantly named students through a discussion of Rousseau and Romanticism, only occasionally thrown off by a modern sensibility ("What does self-serving mean?" "Well, the gas station is self- service"). Yet Grant, one of those gypsy scholars who move from country to country, finds Samoa considerably more alien than his last posting, in Beirut. "In Lebanon," he says, "there was at least some bridge with the West. But here you feel totally...
...seeming parallels between the Conservative regime in Britain during the 1980s and the Republican one in America, and for all Thatcher's alleged admiration of Reagan, in an important way the two societies have changed in opposite directions. Thatcher has taught the British people self- discipline. Reagan and Bush have taught Americans self-indulgence. After the past three American presidential elections, it is unthinkable for an ambitious politician to call on the citizenry -- or any sizable subset of it -- to make the slightest sacrifice for the good of society or its own future prosperity. Thatcher, by contrast, positively delights...
With hindsight, it is easy to see why a slim, self-effacing Englishman named Thomas Edward Lawrence became one of this century's most ballyhooed celebrities. Out of the appalling carnage of World War I -- the mud-caked anonymity of the trenches, the hail of mechanized death that spewed from machine guns and fell from airplanes -- there emerged a lone Romantic, framed heroically against the clean desert sands of Arabia. U.S. journalist Lowell Thomas was the first to recognize that Lawrence's wartime work -- organizing disparate Arab tribes into armed revolt against the occupying Turks, allies of Germany...