Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marxism to break the shackles of an exploitative, capitalistic order, look askance to this optimistic prognostication. The radicals suspect that this justification of the perpetuation of the status quo is just more bourgeois ballyhoo to stem the revolutionary tide and maintain an odious mode of production built on the selfish expropriation of labor-power from the proletarians by the capitalists...
...comedy Shampoo, Director Hal Ashby drew a scathing portrait of privileged Americans living in selfish bliss during the Viet Nam War. Shampoo was set in Beverly Hills against the pointedly ironic background of the 1968 presidential election; its characters were upper-middle-class philanderers whose lives revolved around the chic local beauty salon. Throughout the film, sad news from Southeast Asia blares forth from radios and TV sets, but no one in Shampoo bothers to listen. They are all too busy getting ready for a Nixon victory party that night to care about a war that seems a million miles...
...indulgence in selfish point-grabbing by the pros spurted during the bidding war for talent between the N.B.A. and the American Basketball Association, which was absorbed by the older league in 1976. Agents negotiated longterm, no-cut contracts, and even so-so players got $200,000 or more a year. Admits Detroit's Center Bob Lanier, a team player himself: "Most people, and I'm one of them, get paid by the statistics they produce. A lot of guys have inflated values of their worth." In Boston, the egos got so big that the players forced the retirement of Coach...
...self-confident posturer comes in contact with love he has to ask, "Where is my common sense/How did I get in a jam like this?" Byrne sings the '70s stereotype in his songs. His lyrics are animated by the Time magazine "Mood of the Nation" assessment of this decade: selfish, troubled, absorbed in personal concerns and hedonism, and empty. Byrne jabs at this view even as he accepts it in himself...
From a purely selfish point of view, the move to Providence was a damaging one. Instead of the world's best women swimmers getting a chance to see Harvard's impressive pool, they got a chance to see Brown's. The Harvard attempt to fill Brown's pool with Veritas banners and Harvard t-shirts still does not nullify the effects of the location...