Word: selfishnesses
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...WONDERING if this Fourth of July I'll feel that tingle down my spine when I hear the 1812 Overture and see Old Glory blazing in red, white, and blue fireworks against the black night sky. I'm not concerned with America's birthday this year. It may be selfish, but I'm thinking about my birthday and the fact it places me in the first group of 20 year-olds that must register for the draft...
...rhetoric of women's lib may be little known in the U.S.S.R., but the battle of the sexes seems to be heating up. One recent underground feminist publication issued by bitter women in Leningrad attacked the typical Soviet husband as a brutal, drunken, selfish lout. The document charged that "the male contribution in the home is almost nonexistent. Any man who even knows how to hammer a nail is considered a rarity...
...prison and $10,000 in fines for resisters. And if registration takes place over the summer, as seems likely, it will be hard for many young people to find the support they may need to make a hard choice and live with its consequences. Many will label resisters selfish, but the charge loses its sting in the light of the political selfishness that brought registration back. Those who resist a policy at high personal cost because they find it immoral and unwise are courageous next to those who legislate the fate of others for the sake of their own gain...
...beautiful, so graceful, so changeful in a hundred moods, so brilliant that it is enough to turn anyone's head," she wrote, adding perceptively that "part of her mysteriousness comes from her being, as it were, sexless." There were other flaws. Gladys was a liar, cruel, selfish, perverse, vulgar...
James' other specialty is a high-wire act: a high proportion of her characters are unsympathetic; they are frequently meanspirited, selfish, or simply victims of profound emotional exhaustion. Even in suspense writing, this is perilous stuff for a full-length course...