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...local Episcopal minister shows up to make Rabbit see the moral wrong of his desertion that all the weak strands of his character begin to tangle up. The minister is a weakling himself, but he is persistent. What follows is the revolting zigzag course of a weak, sensual, selfish and confused moral bankrupt. He returns to his wife; he walks out again; a tragic incident sends him back to her once more-and again he runs out. Can he go back to Ruth, pregnant and contemptuous of his weakness? When he goes out on a simple errand, all his failings...
...ideas part of Vermont's everyday political discourse. A politician whose chief desire is to see the world attain peace with freedom, Meyer has expressed ideas that have been represented as ones which could lead to war. A man whose honesty no one questions, he has frequently been termed selfish...
...Women Voters, chimed in: "He's a complainer and a pouter. What's more, he doesn't represent Vermont's attitude when he votes in the House. He sticks to his own idealistic position, saying exactly what that position forces him to believe. I think he has a selfish attitude...
...Funsters, selfish yet rightful holders of the J. Dudley Clark Trophy, have gone undefeated in the last three years of inter-House tackle football competition. Today on Soldiers Field the '60 season officially begins, as Winthrop gets the first shot at the seemingly unbeatable eleven. In other games today it's Quincy vs. Adams, Lowell vs. Kirkland, and Leverett vs. Eliot...
...other agencies. His counsel has been invaluable to me." Nixon, he said, is "the possessor of a vast richness of experience in domestic affairs, foreign relations and person-to-person diplomacy . . . man capable of calm decision in the midst of frenzy, a man who is neither intimidated by selfish pressure groups at' home nor tyrants abroad." It was all-out praise, and if political popularity can be transferred, Ike had certainly done his part to decide who would sit in his chair next...