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...NCPAC could easily be dismissed as merely one more selfish, extremist, right-wing group. After all, it is. But last year, this selfish, extremist, right-wing group managed to raise about $15 million from Americans all over the country...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: The Attack on Welfare | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

...RUDE and immature Selfish and arrogant. He is to sufferable...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: God's Music From an Obscene Child | 9/22/1984 | See Source »

Vanessa Redgrave rises to the challenges of her role, decidedly a difficult one. She portrays Olive-essentially an unattractive, narrows-minded, selfish character--without condescension. There is genuine pathos about Olive's obsessiveness, as it is evident that Verena is her sole emotional focus: suffragism her only raison d'etre. But even her idealism is problematic--talking about women's suffrage, she sounds more like a mystic than a social reformer...

Author: By Hanne-marie Graffato, | Title: Grand Old Boston | 8/17/1984 | See Source »

...however, that the Democrats in San Francisco misplaced their emphasis. They accused "the Reagan Gang" of pillaging the American economy and environment. But the Democratic rhetoric sometimes fell oddly on the ear. For all the talk of compassion, there was in the Democrats' words and attitudes an insistently selfish sense of entitlement. If, in the Democratic version, the Reagan Republican is a sleek, smug, oblivious Darwinian, the Democrats left themselves open to being regarded as a collection of tribes endlessly brawling over things for themselves. Even the feminists demanding the nomination of a woman vice-presidential candidate acted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: All Right, What Kind of People Are We? | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...Atlanta Constitution. "I wonder how much the guy and the people around him think of his fans." One eleven-year-old fan, Ladonna Jones of Dallas, dashed off a letter to Michael that she passed along to the Dallas Morning News: "How could you, of all people, be so selfish?"How could you of all people, be so selfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bringing Back the Magic | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

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