Word: selfishly
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...they could not have everything they wanted--not marriage and children and sexual freedom, not freedom from a career and plenty of white wine, not living as they chose without taking any responsibility for running the show. Above all, according to Yankelovich's survey results, they tried of pursuing selfish goals, felt increasingly lonely and began to seek community and commitment. Has the stage three "ethic of rebellion and self-fulfillment" given way to the stage four "ethic of commitment"? I hope so, because it certainly represents greater maturity to be committed to something beyond the self, to some reality...
Although outdistanced by Trilling's earlier effort, Journalist Shana Alexander has lavished her considerable reportorial skills on Very Much a Lady, interviewing hundreds of people who knew the doctor and his lover. Alexander has emerged with a portrait of Harris' selfish, hardhearted, authoritarian father that goes far to explain her longstanding tolerance of Tarnower's ill-treatment. The author acknowledges a sense of identification with Harris ("she reminds me of me"). But that partisanship does not prevent her from leading the reader through every squalid stage of Harris' 14-year affair with Tarnower. The Scarsdale physician...
Upset by what they described in a letter sent to the campus newspaper The Emory Wheel and local media as the "selfish rush to a career of their classmates", the students said their action was designed "to make people think...
...individual may choose non-violent civil disobedience to protest a law he feels to be un-just. But it is cowardly to expect the University to subsidize one's personal moral decision by nullifying the results of that decision. It is also inexcusably selfish to expect the payer to subsidize one's college education despite one's disregard for the law enacted by the elected representatives of the American people...
Schmidt, by then the Chancellor of West Germany and the most knowledgeable and articulate spokesman for European fears of decoupling, saw a sinister connection between the Soviet introduction of the SS-20 and what he regarded as the shortsighted, selfish American conduct of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT...