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...vote for the repeal is to express a belief that the government should not provide a safeguard for large numbers of productive citizens--in this case labor--against the selfish interests of the few--the contractors...
...friendly manner, make sure the transference will take, and while the patient lies there in misery, we sit comfortably in our armchair, quietly smoking a cigar." Ferenczi realized that worse things than indifference could grow out of this situation: "Analysis is an easy opportunity to carry out unconscious, purely selfish, unscrupulous, immoral, even criminal acts and a chance to act out such behavior guiltlessly...
...reward. The summer hit Big teaches that a 13-year-old boy can find love with the proper career woman and succeed in business without really trying. Who'd ever care to be a grownup when childhood is portrayed as so pure, so powerful, so enlightenedly selfish...
...grasping and selfish, manipulative and impenetrable, mischevious and arbitrary. He had affairs with women half his age and he was incapable of breaking anything off, so he would string his admirers along even after he had found a replacement. Huffington cites these pyschological traits as evidence of Picasso's fatally flawed nature. But her analysis stems as much from animosity as from psychological insight...
...Yourself in My Shoes," Carver tells the story of a young writer named Myers who gets together with his wife on Christmas eve. He and his wife seem to be separated. For a lark, they visit their old landlords, the Morgans. The Morgans are a stodgy and selfish couple, who try to spin a few yarns for Myers, sententiously advising him to recycle the yarns as "material...