Word: selfishnesses
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...peculiarities in the other's mental makeup provides the revelatory pleasures of a mystery. Dickinson also manages to evoke the evolution of feminism, the modern Islamization of animist tribes, the rise of media hegemony and the fall of the British empire. His descriptions are extraordinarily vivid, his characters plausibly selfish and self-deluding, and his climax is an obliquely told yet unforgettable moment of horror...
...Cantabs are quickly learning how to combat Harvard's selfish manipulation of the housing market. In last November's municipal elections, 50 percent of Cambridge's voters told Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE) to stop selling rent-controlled buildings to professors on a priority basis. Because of owner-occupancy rules, Harvard's house sales only serve to decontrol apartments reserved for low-income tenants...
Caddying for him was his oldest son Jackie, 24, himself a golfer of promise, winner of the prestigious North and South Amateur. Barbara and Jack have a daughter and four sons. Increasingly, the children egg their father into joining them at golf, feigning selfish interests but not fooling him. "They want the old man to practice," he says. Corporate setbacks have recently conspired with creaking muscles to limit his time on the courses he builds. It would be an exaggeration to say Jackie had to lead the old man around the National like a blind ward, but just a slight...
...ceremony. To his credit, Thomas usually knew when he had behaved unconscionably. "I owe you so many apologies I don't know where to begin," he opened one missive in 1950, and variations on this formula abound in his letters. He disarmed anger or outrage through self-castigation: "My selfish carelessness and unpunctuality I do not try to excuse as poet's properties. They are a bugbear & a humbug...
...other job seekers are not so happy. Amy Lipson, a smoker, filed a complaint with New York State's division of human rights after she was turned down for a position at Fortunoff's, a department store in Westbury. "In general, smokers are a self-indulgent group and selfish people, who ignore the rules against smoking and could endanger themselves and others," testified Company President Alan Fortunoff at a recent hearing. Comments like Fortunoff's only inflame puffers. "I know not smoking is the best thing, but I don't want anyone else telling me when to give...