Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is a flawed masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless. The plot, a study in conflict and alienation, revolves around a brilliant and selfish woman caught between fierce inner pride and contempt for those nearest her, between past choice and present entrapment, between a stifling marriage and fascination with an old admirer now involved with another woman...
Price says he felt not outrage, but a combination of relief and regret when he read the transcript. "I recall it as a time of sadness. On a selfish level, I was glad I hadn't known [about the June 23 tape]. On a less selfish level, I kind of wished I had. Even at quite some cost to myself, I might have found some way of handling it. I might have ended up in jail, but it would have been worth it to salvage the presidency," Price says. "There were larger things at stake...