Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...herself. Now, looking more self-possessed, Wurtzel graces the cover of her second book topless and giving the finger. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (Doubleday; 434 pages; $23.95) is, more or less, a meandering lamentation on the fate of irrepressible women, those too angry, too tormented, too selfish--those who, say, would prefer to see big pictures of themselves on book jackets when stock art would do. Unless such women tame themselves, Wurtzel bemoans, they wind up dying young. Or, one supposes, at the very least unmarriageable to nice fund managers...
...shameless, selfish and thankfully short plugging of my team...
Thankfully, we have no equivalent evils today. As Andrew A. Green '98 wrote in a Feb. 3 op-ed, "The tenor of campus politics this fall revealed a pervasive ignorance and selfishness among undergraduates." Which worthy causes does Green lament have not been taken up? [W]e have no multicultural student center, junior faculty are almost never tenured, there is no ethnic studies department, the Core has not (really) been reformed and finals are still after Christmas." Each of these concerns is Harvard-centered, and with the exception of a multi-cultural student center and an ethnic studies department...
...order to inflate the activist agenda, they're suggesting that...people who are doing community service are almost selfish," he says. "There is a marginalization in the activist community for those who do community service...
...order to inflate the activist agenda,they're suggesting that...people who are doingcommunity service are almost selfish," he says."There is a marginalization in the activistcommunity for those who do community service...