Word: selfishnesses
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...sport-wide contract dispute, public opinion and the press seem to lay the presumption of guilt on the players. The players, who make the six-figure salaries that most Americans will never even approach, appear to be motivated in their labor action only by the petulant greed of selfish, coddled brats...
...slave quarters, looking for Black women to sleep with; in most cases, these country squires took no responsibility for the slave children they fathered. Julia's female neighbors have not forgotten that sexual abuse and cannot help feeling that she allows Herman to use her body merely for his selfish pleasure, that his love is a lie. Nelson, her male neighbor, considers Julia an uppity nigger who gets involved with whites only because "a Black man got nothing to offer...
McCurdy does not recruit heavily. "I'm happy to be friendly, give information, or show people our facilities. But I don't want to get into the business of pressuring, or bending minds for selfish purposes," he says. Despite his low-key attitude toward recruiting, McCurdy consistently lures high-caliber track athletes...
There is another line to his career: his interest in the implacably impervious. It was this quality that first brought him fame?as Fred Kite, the stupefyingly literal-minded and selfish union shop steward in I'm All Right, Jack (1960). It also the source of hilarity in that small masterpiece, The Party, in which Sellers plays a beturbanned Indian, somehow-invited to a grand affair, and wandering through it, friendless and almost silent, but wreaking havoc wherever he turns. Finally, this impermeability is the mark of his great Inspector Clouseau. In countless scenes such as the one from...
Peter Valentine, a tenant in a Blanche St. building slated for demolition by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), told the council that "if you are concerned about getting a grip on the selfish and expansionistic policies of Harvard and MIT, this...