Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...housing and terrified in many cities by the specter of black crime. It is not fair to attribute all this only to white racism. Conscious and unconscious racism is indeed widespread and cancerous in the country. But in many cases white Americans are not so much racist as selfish or indifferent or trapped in circumstance and history as much as the blacks themselves. It is not always easy for whites to understand that black crime hurts mostly other blacks and that it is often the result of desperate poverty and urban chaos, for which the blacks are not to blame...
...existence of an autonomous women's liberation movement has helped many women, including myself, in one important way. It has given us the moral support to say once and for all that we are not inadequate human beings. selfish mothers, or castrating females for making the justifiable demands on men and on society that we be treated as full human beings, not as sex objects, nurses, or servants...
...drama," says King, "as a piece of fiction." But abstracting the situation in this manner removes not only some of its sting but much of its validity. It will be an almost irresistible temptation for audiences to align themselves with either husband or wife. Some will call Antoinette a selfish, shrill virago; others will see Billy as a frustrated personality whose need to control the relationship comes from his own insecurities...
...heir. In her search for a sanctuary where she can hide the boy and await the return of her lover from the imperial army, she meets with nothing but greed and hostility from the frightened peasants and rapacious lust from the soldiers. Her efforts to confront a culture of selfish barbarism with some compassion and decency only estrange her from her lover and mark her as a doomed woman in the eyes of the peasants. The act culminates in a surrealistic, semi-improvised dream sequence, where the characters, each physicalizing his own brand of hatred, converge on the girl from...
...even more absurd is that Paul Katz, a Yale swimmer, competed in the Games with the NCAA's full approval. So Langer's and Yale's, persecution smacks strongly of pawn-pushing on the NCAA's part. And when the NCAA begins to exploit its members for its own selfish interests, it is time to seriously debate whether it has outlived its usefulness. By insisting that it will continue to keep Langer on its varsity squad, Yale hopes to provoke that debate, but unless the Ivics support Yale to the utmost- and that means withdrawal from the NCAA- the Elis...