Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achieve this new state of calm deliberation, Eisenstadt has attacked both the racists and the more militant elements of the civil rights movement. In his view Mrs. Hicks and the civil rights leaders were guilty of stirring up the de facto segregation issue for their own selfish, political purposes. He is convinced, for example, that Mrs. Hicks would have been defeated in both the 1963 and 1965 elections had she not been able to capitalize on the fear and hatred that the issue of imbalance created. On the other side, he attributes a good deal of the pressure...
...intensification of the problems that both sides admit must be solved immediately. Donahue may still have the power to block passage of the measure, although the mood of the voters and the trend within the legislature is clearly against him. His choice is either to continue the selfish political maneuvering which has proved so destructive in the past twelve months or to face up to the problems which he should be helping to solve. We hope that the Senator will weigh the alternatives well...
...gifts for the family, making holiday cookies for company, the family's going to church together, Christmas carols, the stable under the tree, the smell of turkey, and all the visiting and getting together with family and friends. Christmas is the time when people are a bit less selfish than usual and have more love in their hearts for God and man. Maybe all the externals and trappings of Christmas have got out of hand, but the basic idea is still there. Christmas means the birth of a baby and love-simple things...
...alone with his employer have been replaced by new libertarian appeals for the right of average men to refuse to sell their houses to whom they please. Such average men are notably more numerous in California than in other large states. And the threats to their rather bland and selfish life-style are more pronounced and strident in California than anywhere else in this country...
...Actually," says Weitz, "it's the reader who suffers, but then maybe she really wants to see clothes in awkward poses in bizarre settings. On the other hand, it's my selfish purpose to see my clothes looking beautiful; it's the photographer's selfish purpose to be famous; it's the art director's selfish purpose to have a striking, stylish page; it's the magazine's selfish purpose to sell ads and issues. With all these selfishnesses, you just come up with one big crumbier...