Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NCAA has gone too far when it begins to exploit its member colleges for its own sometimes selfish purposes. Clearly, Yale is little more than the battleground for another in a series of dreary NCAA-AAU squabbles, and the penalizing of Yale, in sanctimonious frustration, makes the Bulldogs little more than whipping boys...
...erogenous zone." Young Actress Anjelica Huston conceded that her father, John Huston, should never have cast her in A Walk with Love and Death. She found herself "no good, awful. There's so many young girls waiting for the opportunity, dying ... I shouldn't have been that selfish." On an earlier show, during a discussion on world overpopulation, Arthur Godfrey leaned over, asked David, "Wanna know a secret?," and then told a nationwide audience that he had himself sterilized. How is one's sex life after the operation? Said Godfrey: "Even better...
...villains of the piece are the wily, arrogant, and ego-tripping males. They want a home, a Mother, and sex. and they get them at the cost of violating the individuality of their women. Though they try to rationalize their selfish actions, the admission of selfishness is more valid to them than that of weakness. "I've. opened up a whole new world of instinctual pleasures for you," says The Hunter to his bride whom he has just raped. When she remains moaning on the floor, he comes back with, "Well, you'll learn to like...
Much of the problem lies with France's small shopkeepers, farmers and minor manufacturers, whose narrow views have saddled France with one of the most backward and selfish middle classes in Europe. De Gaulle had a plan to reform this outmoded structure. Just as he broke the resistance of France's colonial army to end the Algerian war, he was intent on breaking the power and influence of its dominant bourgeoisie to end the chasm be tween the monied and working classes. The byword of that campaign, one of the countless phrases that passed from De Gaulle...
Chamade is not the story of a shattered romance (Antoine will recover) or of true reunion (Charles may not have Lucile back for long). In fact it is less a story of love than one of selfishness. Lucile is something of a child, largely ignorant of her own selfishness and of the fact that she is indulging herself. She brings no malice to her liaisons because she is too empty-headed (she prefers hazy) to be a femme fatale. The really selfish one is Antoine, who tries to make Lucile over to his own specifications. Charles? He has reached...