Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable success is an equally remarkable man: Chairman Joseph Irwin Miller, 52, A tall, gaunt, Christian intellectual. Miller is the only layman ever to rise to the presidency of the National Council of Churches, and he runs his company in accordance with his belief that "being greedy and selfish is not the way to be happy and successful...
...much longer must we support such selfish and narrow-minded "neutrals"? I believe that it is high time we stopped trying to buy friends. Let these nations learn that the road of friendship is a two-way street...
...considerable achievement is its tone of total assurance: reading it. a dedicated Communist might easily convince himself that history was undeniably on his side, that all his sacrifices were worthwhile, all his masters humane and wise, all his enemies villainous. It was all there, from moral fervor to shrewd, selfish appeals, and there was a specious coherence to it all. But some might take a closer look at the fine print...
...Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any dangerous spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so. We do not want to fight-but we have fought before. And others in earlier times have made the same dangerous mistake of assuming that the West was too selfish and too soft and too divided to resist invasion of freedom in other lands...
Along comes David-cynical, selfish, divorced and avidly on the lookout "for a special sort of experience; a kind of imagination of the flesh." Mary runs off with him, although she senses that she is leaving for a "gas chamber." Emotionally speaking, she is right, for David compulsively attempts to destroy her. Trying to understand himself, he inwardly sizes up his kind: "We are the tinkers, who move on; who invite experience but flee from consequences . . . We are the most dangerous of all: the permanently immature...