Word: selfishnesses
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Piercy could probe much more deeply into Daria's dual struggle not to take the same verbal and psychological abuse that her mother took from her crude, hulking, selfish father and to still honor her mother. But after introducing Daria's quandary, Piercy abandons this conflict in favor of the cheap thrills of the arson story...
...stuffing Cracker Jacks up his nose today with Carey Allen's assistance. They tried shaving a couple of months ago. Between the school's Halloween carnival (chairmanship, of course), a pumpkin pie in the oven and the twins, here is a very big thank you. I am selfish, I certainly swear, and we sure laugh a lot!" -By John Skow. Reported by William McWhirter/Phoenix
...words, many of us lived in a world quite different from the world of daily preoccupation, of the business day, civil society. To some extent, everyone's existence is structured by the competing demands of two different worlds. In civil society we largely follow our inelinations. We seek our selfish best interest, try to make the best deals possible, move forward in our careers, invest correctly, take care of our own. In political society, on the other hand, we discuss the issues and then vote for the candidate who will do the most for the nation as a whole. Some...
Cuomo then proceeds to drop the topic leaving the reader wondering exactly why the issue should be so simple--they oppose busing, ergo they are selfish, period, exclamation mark. But, in the aftermath of major deterioration in many school systems where students are bused, and the violence and "white flight" that greeted Black students in yellow buses in South Boston in 1974, the concept of busing is no longer blindly accepted, even by many self-described liberals. Yet Cuomo blithely dismisses his audience, without actually telling us--or himself--why they are wrong...
...overpaid, oversexed and over here," most Britons found the Americans to be warmhearted and valiant Allies. Thousands of English families opened their homes to American servicemen, who responded with equal generosity. Glen Brimblecombe of Ilsington in Devon recalls that as a child "I wanted a bicycle for Christmas. Very selfish, I know now, for Mum could not afford it. Mac, an American sailor from Stover Camp, whom I can still remember, appeared on Christmas morning with a brand-new Elswick bicycle...