Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initially was going to dump the ball to Troy," said Wilford of his scramble. "But then I got selfish and [Jones] made a great block...
...Klan was even more troubling. According to the museum, the actions of the Klan were morally equivalent to those of Union soldiers, who "were often guilty of theft and murder" against defenseless Southern whites, and Northern carpetbaggers, who "were exploiting the ignorance of the former slaves for their own selfish purposes." Worst of all? The abolitionists, who dared "to place blacks in positions of authority." This was Alice in Wonderland history, a version in which everything I had learned was turned on its ear and served up as fact. And yet the white-haired Vicksburg women who ran the museum...
...really concerns me is not the educational philosophy of Resnick's editorial but its general attitude. When one has the chance to spend four years largely isolated from the demands of the modern economy, to study and to live with a few thousand other young students, it seems remarkably selfish to whine about "customer service." This is not to say that students should be cowed into gratitude and never ask anything from Harvard. One would hope, however, that when they do demand something, it might be for people other than themselves...
...really concerns me is not the educational philosophy of Resnick's editorial but its general attitude. When one has the chance to spend four years largely isolated from the demands of the modern economy, to study and to live with a few thousand other young students, it seems remarkably selfish to whine about "customer service." This is not to say that students should be cowed into gratitude and never ask anything from Harvard. One would hope, however, that when they do demand something, it might be for people other than themselves...
...falls. I hear the hearts of my own children sink whenever I am petty, selfish, small. I am not supposed to be small. The day my oldest boy Carl beat (trounced) me in one-on-one--at last, killed his dad!--I fumed like a Nero, stalked off, refused to shake his hand. I'm surprised that I did not disappear through a crack in the playground...