Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Funsters, selfish yet rightful holders of the J. Dudley Clark Trophy, have gone undefeated in the last three years of inter-House tackle football competition. Today on Soldiers Field the '60 season officially begins, as Winthrop gets the first shot at the seemingly unbeatable eleven. In other games today it's Quincy vs. Adams, Lowell vs. Kirkland, and Leverett vs. Eliot...
...other agencies. His counsel has been invaluable to me." Nixon, he said, is "the possessor of a vast richness of experience in domestic affairs, foreign relations and person-to-person diplomacy . . . man capable of calm decision in the midst of frenzy, a man who is neither intimidated by selfish pressure groups at' home nor tyrants abroad." It was all-out praise, and if political popularity can be transferred, Ike had certainly done his part to decide who would sit in his chair next...
This predicament cannot be resolved by organizational meetings involving relatively few people, raising money, and treating it lightly; those who have somehow been jolted into an awareness of what lies ahead must communicate their sense of emergency to others of all nations, for it is not an ignoble or selfish fear, which can be ridiculed, ignored, or soothed. Only as every individual is moved by this larger concern and allows it to affect his own life, to intensify his attitudes, will "those in charge" be forced to listen to him and to make the discontinuation of nuclear testing the primary...
...expressive music of Ravi Shanker. If Aparajito has a climax, it is the scene in which the boy learns of his mother's death. His wordless tears express his grief, his shame at not having cared enough for her while she liver, and at the same time his selfish need to make his own life a success in spite of his loss. Perhaps the boy brings such dignity to his role because he is not a professional actor, but just an ordinary human being...
...Gaya-Nuňo, director of Madrid's Velasquez Institute, becomes outraged whenever he thinks about the steady flight of European art treasures to the U.S. But he does not put all the blame on the Americans. Says he, in the French magazine Connaissance des Arts: It is selfish and dollar-mad Europeans who have really done the damage...