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...good was interred with Jean Paul Getty's bones, the authors of these two biographies have not found it. Neither have they discovered anything that could be called evil. Getty, who died in 1976 at age 83, simply emerges as a supremely selfish man and a consummate bottom-liner who subjected all his passions to cost analysis. In order of importance, his preoccupations were the oil business, sex, and bargain hunting for art. He even looked the part: a Scrooge-like figure with a lecherous gaze living in an underheated English manor house that contained a public pay phone...
...staff editorial has a selfish tone to it. We are all students here, and obviously we have a lot to lose in Federal education cutbacks. But to ask that education programs be spared is to ask, indirectly, that other programs suffer more. All America will have to expect less from the Government in coming years; we students ought to tighten our belts with the rest...
...Laura Gomez has objected, as have several others, to my refusal to allow some students to enter the classroom sometime after my lecture had begun on the ground that I was disregarding "a long-established" principle of a shopping period, "for selfish reasons...
...find most curious the assertion that my attitude was "selfish." At the beginning of the class, I stated that I would speak for only 25 to 30 minutes, and I asked those in the room. as a matter of courtesy, to stay for the entire period. The courtesy was not only to me but to others in the room, whose attention was disrupted when others stood up to pass them, go out, etc. I said, jokingly, that one could consider this authoritarian, if one was radical; a matter of civility, if one was conservative; and a social contract...
Bell's unbridled faith in institutional stability is ironic in light of his disregard for the customs of this institution, Harvard University. Not only did he disregard the principles of the long-established shopping period, he also repudiated students' intellectual curiosity for selfish reasons...