Word: selfishnesses
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...Crimson is in Colorado for the nationals. "It seems too good to be true. To be a little selfish, it's the perfect finale--there isn't anything better than this to cap my college career. And to think of it from the team's point of view, it's such a great honor...
...Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, said the "liberal consensus sure doesn't seem to have more of a present," adding it has lost appeal as people have become "utterly selfish" about issues like the sharing of energy resources with less-resourceful allies...
...like Jeannette, Mazursky's most intriguing yet incomplete character, at the outset. She flirts her way into our hearts in Washington Square Park. Soon, however, we realize that she's involved in her relationships with Willie and Phil only because they make her feel good. Unthinking and selfish, she doesn't make us care...
Both Anderson and Reagan accused the President of avoiding the debate for selfish motives. Robert Strauss, Carter's veteran campaign manager, who was more nervous than the other aides about the decision to decline, admitted that self-interest was the main concern. Said he: "We have our selfish reasons. Reagan has his selfish interests. We all have our selfish interests. Let's don't kid ourselves...
...this kaleidoscope of memory we encounter Virginia's father as an austere Greek scholar, selfish, stingy and totally un-Hellenic in his rigidity of spirit. Virginia hates him. The second man who stalks her early memory is perhaps worse. After escorting her to a fancy ball, her half brother tries to assault her sexually ("Eros," she says, "came on dirty wings...