Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is nothing to do but call out the troops-after rioting starts. No, I am not shocked at "police brutality"-after rioting starts. But rioting would not start if the Negroes' road to better living were not blocked by so many million white clods-shortsighted, selfish and ill-mannered...
...There is a credibility gap beginning to emerge," says Young, "and there are forces saying that the cause is hopeless, that American white people are so selfish that they will remain silent in this crisis, or that the American white people are congenitally immoral and so bankrupt that it is futile even to try to bring about change. I don't believe this, but not because I think that a large number of Americans are going to get more moral. They are simply going to get more intelligent...
However, there are at least three outstanding jobs. Dan Deitch plays his sour, self-righteous Angelo with a sibilant "S" that makes every word he utters sound selfish and mean. Susan Channing has the part of Isabella to deal with -- one of the most ambiguous roles ever written. Yet she manages to be both touching and priggish, and she is always believable. And Paul Schmidt, though he may not show the power and the glory of the Duke, does do a creditable job with a part that goes on forever and ever...
...Abraham?and both at least forgot their differences long enough to bury their father. Their descendants in Israel and the Arab world today, even if they never embrace as brothers, need to come to terms with each other not only for the sake of world order but for selfish reasons. The Arabs need the help?and the lessons?that Israel is willing to give. The Israelis need peace. "We must try and try and try again to find a modus vivendi with our neighbors," says Levi Eshkol. "A small state has to work hard for friendship." Israel's hardest task...
Obtuse, self-pitying, domineering, obsessive, hypocritical, opinionated, exacting, intolerant, selfish, malevolent, deluded, manic-in fact, just about every pejorative word in the language could be applied to Lucy Nelson. She is a young woman who would try a reader's patience in a short story; in a lengthy novel she can scarcely be borne...