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...self-confident posturer comes in contact with love he has to ask, "Where is my common sense/How did I get in a jam like this?" Byrne sings the '70s stereotype in his songs. His lyrics are animated by the Time magazine "Mood of the Nation" assessment of this decade: selfish, troubled, absorbed in personal concerns and hedonism, and empty. Byrne jabs at this view even as he accepts it in himself...
...perspective, animals are not benign machines that live for the group and kill only to eat. Instead, they are programmed for selfish, even murderous acts when survival and propagation are threatened. This radical shift in thinking is shown most dramatically by studies of India's sacred monkey, the hanuman langur. In 1965, a naturalist wrote that the long-tailed black and gray langurs were "relaxed" and "nonaggressive." Now, a Harvard researcher has shown that the langur society operates more like the House of Borgia, complete with kidnaping, constant sexual harassment, group battles, abandonment of some wounded young by their...
From a purely selfish point of view, the move to Providence was a damaging one. Instead of the world's best women swimmers getting a chance to see Harvard's impressive pool, they got a chance to see Brown's. The Harvard attempt to fill Brown's pool with Veritas banners and Harvard t-shirts still does not nullify the effects of the location...
...women at Houston wanted the right to tear their unborn children out of their wombs. How ironic of them at the same time to call for federally funded programs for victims of child abuse. What selfish, twisted logic...
...passive acceptance of the evils of the outside world. Critics like Coffin tend to see the resurgence of Evangelicalism as one more sign of a self-preoccupied and self-serving national swing toward conservatism in general. The argument is that the outward-looking reformist '60s have regressed into the selfish '70s. The charge has some merit. But there is also much to the Evangelical theory that a man must dramatically change his life and values before he can begin to affect things around him. "We want to change the world," says Manhattan Evangelist Bill Bray, "but we want to change...