Word: selfishness
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...protectionism: Protectionism motivated by short-range selfish interests will only cause a chain reaction of protective measures. This creates the grave danger of accelerating the recession into a 1930s-like depression. If that happens, Japan is the country with the most to lose. Therefore, by employing every means at our disposal, we must shatter this tide of protectionism and guard free trade. If there is a depression, the country that will be the most pleased will be the Soviet Union...
...Americain is the state of the stateless. Rick sets himself up as a kind of chieftain or caliph in his isolated, autonomous, amoral fiefdom, where he rules absolutely. Victor and Rick are splintered aspects, it may be, of the same man. Ultimately, the ego rises above mere selfish despair and selfish desire. It is reborn in sacrifice and community: "It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill o' beans in this crazy world." Idealism and its bride ascend into heaven on the Lisbon plane; Rick...
...authors offer a complicated two-pronged assessment: 1) Jewish psychological defense mechanisms, not radical idealism, sparked what turned out to be a valuable new critique of American society and 2) when the original leadership gave way to a largely non-Jewish contingent, a different and more pernicious set of selfish motives drove SDS toward a hollow and violent revolutionary doctrine. Startling at first, these conclusions seem less remarkable after separating out the social science jargon and comparing the actual reasoning to existing theories...
...large part ornate restatements of previous studies. Born and raised in a world of intellectual East Coast progressivism and schooled at the nation's finest private universities, the early SDSers were reacting on one level to perceived shortcomings in the world that nurtured them. In a sense it was selfish--Ivy League ruminations about political alienation, glorified as an answer for the poor man and the Black. The students were grandiloquent on paper and naive in the ghetto; certainly personal guilt over their own relative security in the face of hardship elsewhere helped inspire some student leaders. As both fans...
...President indicated in his speech [Oct. 18], his Administration has taken care of 80% of our major problems. The last, unemployment, is the only area the Democrats have left for attacking Reagan. If the congressional Democrats would put their country before their own selfish political motives and be patient, the U.S. could complete its recovery...