Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times of the day, responsible in a large measure for this state of affairs. They are, generally speaking, undisciplined, disorderly to a high degree, and extremely inconsiderate of the rights of others, for all kinds of reasons which they rationalize no doubt into being excellent, but are usually purely selfish and very limited, I consider...
...title The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is an apt one but at the same time it leads us to expect more from the movie than it gives us. "Apprenticeship" implies a period of development, a time during which a young person grows out of his childish impulses and selfish desires. But young Kravitz shows little sign of any development at all, and we are left to guess whether or not he will serve out his apprenticeship and become a master or as Cohen would call it, a mensch...
...Helen Fadim of Chicago expect that their daughter Kimberly, 4, will be an only child. "I never wanted to be a mother," says Helen, 32. "I'm perfectly willing to acknowledge that I have selfish feelings." Even one child is too many for James...
...wrong and selfish is a common one today. "I'm concerned that the world will eat itself up," says Hop Holmberg of Boston, who agrees with his wife Judy that two children are all they should have. Mrs. Mary Libretti of Madison, N.J., mother of eight, frequently encounters hostility. One woman told her that she and her brood were consuming "too much oxygen and too much space...
...drawn. By all means let the girls have the advantages which we posses. We should be glad to have the scanty salaries of our instructors increased; we should be glad to see the bright faces of the young ladies in Cambridge, and we would not even be so selfish as to envy them a Harvard degree; but we have too much respect for them to wish to have them associated with us in our college course. Many examples of the success of coeducation have been quoted, but it has had some results which are not so satisfactory, and the reports...