Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brother Berry-berry who holds the key to the family's happiness as well as to their despair. Tall, handsome, irresistible to women, brutal and meanly selfish, he bums around the country, calling home only when he needs money. His bemused mother adores him, pathetically unaware that he hates her. His father, a rude, free-thinking eccentric of a kind increasingly rare in the U.S., insists that the boy is only sampling life and will turn out well. When Berry-berry unexpectedly shows up at home, the Williamses have a brief interlude of unaccustomed happiness. He falls in love...
...youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism." Even the New York Post's sour-tempered Murray Kempton broke down and confessed that the young man from Boston was "an engaging fellow"-thereby leaving Westbrook Pegler almost alone to carry the dissent: "A hard, selfish politician with no warm emotional ties...
There are some words, the researchers found, that workers do not like to hear at all. Corporation conjures up a "selfish" and "ruthless" image, although company gets a friendly reception. Piece rate irritates workers, but they like the term incentive pay; and free enterprise evokes friendlier feelings than capitalism. Workers are not emotionally affected by the word strike, but work stoppage is associated by them with "bad, harmful, and unfair" practices...
...even as they are fighting, the networks are facing up to the probability that they will lose. In a statement implying that pay TV would corrupt the public interest for selfish purposes, CBS President Frank Stanton has nevertheless assured stockholders that if the worst happened, CBS is prepared to take the pay way too. And the trade nurtures the rumor that NBC has a toll system in the works. "If the pay system develops," said President Sarnoff early this year, "free television, as we know it, would face disintegration, and we would have no alternative but to join the coin...
...mother, an unfair handicap on the children, or '"any unreasonable liability upon society." The trouble with too many Catholics, argued Dr. Fisher, is that they will not concede this duty, but "tend rather to suggest that family planning springs only from fear of overpopulation or prudential and selfish desires...