Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...body of African intellectuals is too selfish to think of the oppressed African people, who do not have the intellectual training of the intellectuals. Unlike the African peasants, these "butterfly" intellectuals live in two worlds--the African and the Western world. They have the skills, the qualifications and educational training to live in these two worlds. If they find Africa almost impossible, they will definitely make it in the western world. Some of these intellectuals see the African question as unsolvable, but they have never reached for the impossible, reminiscent of the words of a German sociologist, Max Weber...
...devastation brought by colonialism is immense and apparent. The tribal groups were further divided. Boundaries were carved out of their own selfish ends. The colonialists institutionalized an exploitative system under the guise of teaching the African. Big business was monopolized which deprived the indigenous African from participating. Slavery destroyed families and brought untold misery--a loss that will never be restored. Religion, although it exposed some of the ghastly wounds inflicted upon the native African by colonialism, did little to stimulate the mind of the African to think, to be creative, and to realize the not everything comes from...
...feelings, ain't they what it's all about? After all, by the time the opinion polls diagnosed the concept of alienation, some people were already cocktail-party-familiar with a selfish version of it, trotting out their justification for narcissism and political apathy with the self-righteousness of that fox in Aesop's fable who gets his tail sliced off in a trap and spends ages trying to convince his fellows that, really, it is exceedingly convenient to be rid of such an appendage...
...style baseball under a California sun. Nurtured on the Dodger farm system to live by simple virtues, they respect their owner, love their manager and hit home runs. The Yankees reflect the clamor and chaos of New York City. High-powered and high-salaried, they are as disputatious, selfish and disdainful of each other as they are talented-a galaxy of stars, singularly burning with a hard, cold light. The following stories probe beyond the line scores into the contrasting characters of the two teams. The story on the fractious Yankees was reported and written by Senior Correspondent Robert Ajemian...
...there was a rumor that the Jets and Mets were not friends, even though they played on the same field. The Mets were owned by a miserly old richman, the Earl of Grant. This thrifty owner, known as Don to his friends, paid his players too little and acted selfish about his fields. He would never let the Jets play on his grass while the Mets were still playing. The scribes did not like selfish people, and they began to call the Earl bad names...