Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iras, two thankless roles must either put on more or different clothes. The colored battle-screen made no contribution. More seriously, the court at Egypt was enervated and decidedly unexotic, unmajestic, uninercurial, and rather bland, tired, and timid. There was petulance instead of the passionate anger of a moody, selfish, regal, lover-queen. Miss Yakutis must avail herself, as I know she can, of a range of tones and rhythms, and soar and admonish and implore and pout and sing her way to complexity. The soldiers are unremittingly declamatory, laboring to render each line as massively as possible. They...
...Those who believe the environmental crisis relates to trees and not to people are wrong," Muskie said. Referring to the high standard of living, he said, "there's still an unwillingness to cut back on selfish exploitation for selfless conservation...
...represent a special-interest group, farms destroying food when we have hungry people, and now a Senator proclaims that we need to fill a Supreme Court vacancy with a judge who will render justice to the mediocre. We are in serious trouble when we must label our greed and selfish lust for power as mere inefficiencies...
...America deals with blacks and their aspirations will define for decades and perhaps centuries what kind of country America really is. How America deals with them, and therefore with itself, will show it to be either the country seen by its bitter critics- selfish and oppressive. Or else the country seen by its defenders- greatly troubled but still in the grip of its original moral purpose and promise. It may be the black man's role not only to fight for his rightful share of his heritage, but to recall white Americans to their own sense of conscience...
Other black beliefs: whites give blacks a break only when forced to (77% agreed with that proposition); white men secretly want black women (74%); whites have a mean and selfish streak in them (65%); whites are physically weaker than blacks (55%); whites are less honest than blacks (50%); white people need to have somebody like blacks to lord it over (49%); whites are more apt to catch diseases...