Word: selfishnesses
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...native Californian, I was offended by your article "Gas: A Long, Dry Summer" [May 21]. Californians are not selfish, greedy gas hogs. California has been hit the hardest in the nation, but we will survive...
...That selfish interest has moved Harvard sprawling in all directions across Cambridge, community organizers complain. Two of the demands during the student strike of 1969 were for lower rents in University-owned housing and an end to Harvard's incursions on surrounding neighborhoods. Neither has been put into effect, tenant organizer Sullivan says. "Instead, Harvard has recently begun serious real estate investment in the city, and created its own real estate corporation," Sullivan adds. In the last year, the University has tried to take at least one building out of the housing market, ordering tenants evicted so it could...
...think something in the process of University decision-making is to blame for its problems with the city. "There are no individuals you can single out," says one city official. "The structure is such that it makes it hard (for Harvard) to move in any direction except its own selfish interest...
...Sure,' God said. 'I'm Hero of Heaven. I call on Myself.' That was when He began His explanations. He revealed the secrets of books, of pictures and music . . . why marches were more selfish than anthems, lieder less stirring than scat, why landscapes were to be preferred over portraits, how statues of women were superior to statues of men but less impressive than engravings on postage. He told them how to choose wines and why solos were more acceptable to Him than duets. He told them the secret causes of inflation...
...been capable of aggressive anti-intellectualism. He displayed what Frady calls his "capacity to trivialize the awesome" when, after the My Lai massacre, he submitted: "We have all had our My Lais in one way or an other . . . with a thoughtless word, an arrogant act, or a selfish deed." His definitions of sin and evil have not always done justice to the subject; he tends to concentrate on the homely offenses of drink ing, gambling, lying and even nagging...