Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some people deliberately try to exploit the colonial hangover for their own selfish purposes, or in order to serve some external force. We must reject such people publicly. It is naive to think that there is no danger of imperialism from the East. In world power politics, the East has as many designs on us as the West. This is why we reject Communism. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism. What we want is Kenya nationalism. There is no place for leaders who hope to build a nation of slogans...
...abhors the organizational mess that is now American education: reactionary teachers' organization, unnecessary regional accrediting agencies, competitively selfish private colleges, disorganized state educational authorities. In some states the highest education officials are elected, with the result that they are "in a relatively weak position, willing tools" of unofficial lobbying groups like the NEA. In others, numerous small colleges compete for what state funds are available, with no central considerations determining the allocation of funds. Conant's answer to these problems, as to integration problems, is greater power at the top, centralization at the state level and full-time education officials...
Tekla is a selfish woman who wants to have her way, to be flattered, to flirt, but never to admit that anything is her fault; a vulgar coquette who must be assured of her charm and virtue. Miss Allen is that exactly. She is infuriating. She radiates stupidity and sick sexuality She justifies every relationship, every line, in the play...
...birth." She submits to sterilization at her husband's urging, only to learn that he has got another woman with child. Her pumpkin shell bursts. Alienated from husband, family and self, she flees into a brief affair, at last learns to accept her husband as flawed, faithless, tender, selfish and, for her, inevitable...
...monopoly of collective bargaining by national unions and employer organizations stands in the way of better co-operation, Romney said. "The customer is being shortchanged" through the selfish interplay of the national groups, he claimed...