Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are some men a hat won't help," said the ad, sponsored "in the selfish interest of the hat industry" by the Hat Corp. of America. "If you look anything like the fellow in the picture, you can stop reading right now." Most men kept reading-except in Greenwich Village (the ad's model, a student, had been found there by the ad agency of Leo Burnett). The ad promised that a hat "can make the rough, competitive road between you and the top a little easier to travel," warned that most executives "prefer to hire...
...Miss Cudahy of Stowes Landing, there is an eccentric, selfish old woman who sees her deaf-mute daughter on the point of finding happiness and refuses to let it come about. But motives and actions are never simple in an Elliott story. Each of the three, girl, man and old lady, could resolve the business in a moment. What stops them from taking the decisive step is a flaw in character, the underlying subject of the story...
...local Episcopal minister shows up to make Rabbit see the moral wrong of his desertion that all the weak strands of his character begin to tangle up. The minister is a weakling himself, but he is persistent. What follows is the revolting zigzag course of a weak, sensual, selfish and confused moral bankrupt. He returns to his wife; he walks out again; a tragic incident sends him back to her once more-and again he runs out. Can he go back to Ruth, pregnant and contemptuous of his weakness? When he goes out on a simple errand, all his failings...
...ideas part of Vermont's everyday political discourse. A politician whose chief desire is to see the world attain peace with freedom, Meyer has expressed ideas that have been represented as ones which could lead to war. A man whose honesty no one questions, he has frequently been termed selfish...
...Women Voters, chimed in: "He's a complainer and a pouter. What's more, he doesn't represent Vermont's attitude when he votes in the House. He sticks to his own idealistic position, saying exactly what that position forces him to believe. I think he has a selfish attitude...