Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Throughout the play we receive two conflicting messages. The man has been beaten, unjustly deprived of the success to which he had a rightful claim. Here the inequities of this society are clearly to blame. And yet because Brad is so brutal in his treatment of his wife, so selfish in his needs. Wallowing in such endless self-pity, the message that comes through even stronger is: pull yourself together, man. Go back to college and get yourself out of the plant; adopt a child. Society oppresses, yes, but self-pity oppresses more...
...easy action. It will take all our energy, all our compassion, all our strength. We will need determination and faith, for truly it is our mission on earth, Without those, we are lost, but with them the big payoff and final reward will dwarf the millions that the selfish have hoarded and heal the divisiveness and the wounds already seared. It is our duty together, and together we must begin. For as my father quoted Albert Camus...
...knowledge but avoids prescribing values for patients. Erikson now says that this is an illusion: analysts intervene in the process by which patients create their values. Sometimes this is done by adjusting an individual to society's expectations, sometimes by seeming to encourage destructively "unrepressed" behavior (like a selfish sexual life that uses other people as objects). Erikson is unclear as to whether analysts can ever stop prescribing values, however unconsciously. But he insists they must try to do so, particularly since he expects rising pressures to turn them into gurus...
...better. But this is a film that captures surfaces: the high-charged energy of a concert, the languor and uncertainty that comes with getting it all before you have wanted it long or hard enough. MacLaine is a familiar character, and the film makers are careful to make him selfish and artistically ambitious beyond his true abil ity. The movie's funniest sequence is MacLaine's masterwork, a rock chorale dedicated to sanctifying women and fea turing the composer himself - singing like an androgynous elf, surrounded by hundreds of young girls, dressed in brid al gowns and crooning...
...separate the two); they were ends in themselves. His fervent belief in socialism was a faith in people. Nick always believed that he saw in people what Michael Harrington, one of his favorite authors, saw: the seed beneath the snow--in the midst of a grade-grubbing, money-chasing, selfish, banal society he saw individuals who wanted desperately to love, desperately to be accepted, and who wanted to cooperate in harmony, rather than grovel and cut throats in competition. And--perhaps more than he ever suspected--he had an effect on his friends. Maybe he really did help...