Word: selfishnesses
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...while the rabble, with their time-worn creeds, Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife, Lo! Freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice sleeps...
Elisabeth is quite an ordinary young woman: pretty, smart and young enough to feel stirrings of ambition. As the movie begins, she has just been divorced from her husband (Friedhelm Ptok), a stalwartly selfish book editor. Her departure was caused partly by her own restlessness and partly by her husband's view of woman's estate as somewhere just above serfdom. He retains custody of their young son. For Elisabeth to have any chance to win her child back, she must prove to the German court that she leads "a moral life...
...Kass, like Ramsey, is worried about euthanasia sloganeering that might mask "our prejudices against the old and 'useless' and, in some cases, our simply crass and selfish interests." Like Ramsey, he questions the slogan's implication that "dignity will reign if only we can push back officious doctors, machinery and hospital administrators." Indeed, reflects Kass, "a death with dignity may turn out to be something rare and uncommon, like a life with dignity...
...wife Tricia, she's the oldest. The children are Belinda, 16, Murray, 14, Adam, 12, and Toby, who will be 10 this year if we let him." Because of his family, Dale is undecided about the onslaught of American offers since his Scapino triumph. "I am very selfish about family," he says. "I have only another few years until the children leave." Then, too, Director Dunlop is talking about a possible Jim Dale Henry...
...drawn. By all means let the girls have the advantages which we possess. We should be glad to have the scanty salaries of our instructors increased; we should be glad to see the bright faces of the young ladies in Cambridge, and we would not even be so selfish as to envy them a Harvard degree; but we have too much respect for them to wish to have them associated with us in our college course. Many examples of the success of co-education have been quoted; but it has had some results which are not so satisfactory...