Word: selfishnesses
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...president of the United Genes says at his inaugural address to the millions of purines and pyrimidines who have tuned in, "I will strive to unite all our genetic material from the lowest guanines to the highest cytosines so we can work together to create the meanest, nastiest, most selfish and lustful creature we have ever lived in, thereby continuing our, existence. This I promise." Thunderous applause...
...themselves. Together they supposedly forged the deathbed instructions of Mao, incited violence and sabotage throughout the country, and mounted campaigns of slander against anyone who opposed them. Chiang Ch'ing is being described by the press and in countless wall posters as a kind of Chinese Marie Antoinette, selfish, greedy and arrogant...
...guess I'm being selfish, but I just don't want to live up at the Quad, and the plan makes it more likely that I'll live there, Ann W. Oppenlander '80 said yesterday, adding that "It's too removed and too quiet...
...songs, runs into censorship problems and gets himself fired. His wife, Mary (sensitively played by Melinda Dillon), has endured years of poverty (and loneliness) on the Texas plains, and seeks security desperately; she can view Woody's stubborn refusal to compromise and his frequent wanderings from home only as selfish personal indulgences, and she finally picks up the kids and leaves for Pampa, never to return. Woody, on the other hand, eventually pulls up stakes and sets off on a cross-country tour, singing, writing, and organizing...
...gamesman label sounds almost pejorative, but Maccoby did not mean it that way. There is a world of difference between shallow deceivers who play selfish games and the gamesman who revels in the corporate game. He lives it lustily, healthily, eagerly and is likely to rise rapidly with the encouragement of peers and superiors, and the adoration of flirting, sexy secretaries...