Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Selfish Speculations...
...specifically in upholding a framework of segregation from which they profit. This is a phenomenon that has received little attention in the North. Then too, many members of Atlanta's black bourgeoisie take advantage of the hazy distinction between personal and social advance to indulge private (sometimes selfish) ambitions in the name of civil rights. As for the "courageous freedom fighters," the question is not whether we in the North admire them, but whether we accurately assess the percentage of the Negro populace they represent...
...President should seek direct public support for his program through a national televised speech and through a series of White House meetings with representatives of business, labor, and professional groups. Such an appeal is the only way to cut through the tangle of selfish opposition and political inertia that each year obstructs the passage of an education bill. If an effective lobby for aid to education does not exist, the President's job must be to create...
...amount of dynamiting and shooting, however, can win the battle. The striking miners feel oppressed by rich, selfish operators, but the operators, while not poor, are faced with a diminishing market for their coal. A dozen years ago eastern Kentucky enjoyed reasonable prosperity. Now, with heavy competition from oil and the large, highly mechanized coal mines, the operators of the small mines are squeezed; the Kentucky miners have been forced into poverty by the depression in the industry...
...that has had its greatest boom during the man-short years following World War II. The main reason for its growth, says an official in Bonn's family ministry, is that "there is a lack of real social life in West Germany today-we have become a little selfish and don't concern ourselves much with our fellow men." Known by the unromantic name of Ehlanbahnunsgewerbe -literally, the marriage-initiating business-it has inevitably attracted many brokers less interested in mating souls than coining Deutsche marks. "There are as many serious marriage agencies as there are Cabinet members...