Word: selfishnesses
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Faced with intense competition for traditionally prestigious jobs and an overall economy mired in recession and high interest rates, students are stepping cautiously, weighing the advantages of expensive graduate schools against those of immediate employment and balancing all of that against less-selfish concerns about political issues. Being matter-of-fact about choosing a path beyond the gates of the Yard should not prompt scorn or surprise. "You can't blame someone for wanting to get into a good professional school, to get into a good firm," says Michael T. Anderson '83, a prominent leftist campus organizer. (Please see adjacent...
Though Off the Wall by and large treats the Journal with respect, some harsher thrusts are directed at the paper's supposedly smug and selfish readers. One story reports that market forces have diverted distribution of a drug that will cure leprosy to use instead in treating tennis elbow. The jokes range from the incisive to the tasteless, and even the racist and antiSemitic. An Op-Ed column headlined COLORED PEOPLE MUST SUFFER TO PROSPER is signed "Thomas Soweto," deftly mocking the free-market views of Thomas Sowell, a conservative black economist who contends that racism...
Such banality in the face of danger should persuade us that the rich are ordinary people, not nobles who feel kinship with peasants. Able only to indulge their ordinariness to a greater extent than most, they mix common human altruism with much selfish silliness. But kindness, though common, resist lumping with the ridiculous mediocrity of Kahn's patrician materialism. As Whitney wrote in 1979, his philanthropic foundation helped those who "have lived with adversity in the form of poverty or discrimination. They lean toward a practical vision of helping friends and neighbors work together on common and immediate problems rather...
...four walls of your Harvard University room are closing in on you, and your roommates are grouchier and more selfish than you can deal with The people and conversations in the dining hall are depressingly redundant and you fell your muscles atrophying from the long hours spent indoors during reading period and Cambridge's nasty and brutish weather. In short, you have lost sight of Harvard's renowned mystique and you need desperately to get away from everything and everyone before you join the Moonies or take a semester's leave of absence...
...toward the clear light of international recognition, reason, and perhaps agreement it is not blaming anyone, nor it is asking for charity it not asking that America carry the burden alone. Instead it is a challenge to men and women every where to be efficient, not for selfish ends, but for the end of making oneself and the world safe for democracy. But it is true that America, the modern nation on earth, a nation in which wealth is more equally distributed, probably, than in any country except China, may provide a unique inspiration for the rest of the world...