Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Page One, the Providence Evening Bulletin last week ran a story with an arch note of warning. "A motorist from Cranston [R.I.]," said the story's lead, "sheepishly swears this story is true−but even if it isn't, a newspaper would have to be pretty selfish not to pass it along as he tells it." The story was that a motorist, who refused to identify himself, was driving along Connecticut's Merritt Parkway when his car stalled. He flagged a passing car, asked the woman driving it to give him a push. Since...
...Gentle Season, young (27) University of Florida Librarian Clyde Miller writes simply about a Southern tragedy that would have tempted most of his Southern contemporaries into pure bathos. An attractive, selfish woman gradually breaks down a man's spirit by refusing her love. Her teen-age nephew tells the story, and because he admires Captain Traill, the tragedy seems all the deeper. Unlike most sensitive boys of Southern fiction, young Joshua understands enough of an adult situation, but not so much that the tale appears incredible. At the start of his career, Author Miller already knows that what...
...flagrantly biased, grossly unfair and palpably "slanted" diatribes in journalism. You have obviously accepted the opinions of one who is bitterly opposed to the Governor . . . He has acted honestly, fearlessly and in accordance with his promises to act for the benefit of the state as a whole, not for selfish pressure groups...
...motif has disappeared from Lucasta's clothes and the gold spotlight is used only intermittently. Confronted by the love of the Christ-figure, Colby Simpkins, Lucasta breaks down and confesses the story of her past. Like Mary Magdalene, Lucasta has a noble father, but has lived a loose, selfish life which she now regrets. The fact that for much of this scene Lucasta is seated at Colby's feet and that her confession climaxes in a flood of tears parallels the act of penitential love performed by Mary Magdalene when she washed Christ's feet. And just as the seven...
...fight for a much fairer deal for the Negro, even while we also oppose the extremist demands of his more violent spokesmen"). Poe kept Progressive Farmer free of any single farm group, still carries the legend in the magazine: "Serving no master, ruled by no faction, circumscribed by no selfish or narrow policy...