Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorable to France. His Francophobia deepened with the years, and in 1957 he warned the U.S. against relying on France to defend Europe, adding querulously: "I don't know why the world doesn't catch on to those French-they're stupid, weak, stubborn and selfish." After Morocco won its independence. King Mohammed V tried to placate the old exile and persuade him to return home. He sent a donation of $14,000, but Krim refused the money and threw away the royal letter because it addressed him as a plain subject, not a prince...
...with a unanimous vote to support the British in Brussels. "Europe without Britain is unthinkable," declared Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, leader of the West German Common Market delegation. From the Bundestag came strong warnings that legislators will refuse to ratify Adenauer's pact unless De Gaulle's selfish whim is thwarted...
...task Charles de Gaulle had set himself. In the long run, it was creation of a Gaullist third force in the great-powers equation. En route, he was rejecting supranational Europe, brushing aside the proposed multilateral nuclear deterrent to preserve total weapons sovereignty for himself, rebuffing Britain for frankly selfish political reasons, and, in fact, rejecting the whole Atlantic Community concept with its overtones of American participation. It was perhaps the U.S. voice in Europe that De Gaulle feared most. He was even preparing to control the influx of American capital into France with tight new financial regulations (see WORLD...
...Bridge on the River Kwai, Guinness makes Colonel Jock Sinclair a three-dimensional personality seldom found in portrayals of a standard sort of crude-but-lovable Highland officer. In Kwai, Sir Alec had to be inflexible to the point of personal sacrifice, but as Sinclair he must be selfish to the detriment of all that he loves. The Colonel claims to love his battalion, yet be lets personal spite bring dissention, disgrace, and finally tragedy down upon it; he pronounces his affection for his daughter (Susannah York), yet he treats her as a propitiation for his own sins, and when...
...pretty soon you realize that this straight-faced world is slightly magic around the edges. Evil is a man in a striped suit and derby hat who tries to destroy dreams. He is a dictatorial mayor and selfish capitalist and doesn't believe that Sandcastle Pier is a boat. Of course it is. We registered it under the laws of the new country of Liberama. And it makes so many people happy that...