Word: selfishnesses
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...response to all this is to write off the current group of college students as hopelessly timid and selfish. I cannot accept this explanation, for I am frightened by many of the same things that trouble my classmates and yet I know my motives are not evil. I though of teaching next year but there are no jobs; I considered organizing but there is no money. I, along with many other people here, intend to fulfill my obligations--but one cannot build without mortar and brick...
There is furious movement, to be sure - but it is caused by the selfish race to win special bilateral deals with the Middle East oil producers. Last week French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert toured the Middle East attempting to button down contracts that would ensure France oil for the next decade and beyond. He was followed closely by Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who jetted to Egypt, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi to guarantee supplies for Italy. In St. Moritz, the Shah of Iran took time between ski runs to listen to oil requests from German Economics Minister...
...about his personal finances and taxes. So far as events would allow, according to White House spokesmen, he would now turn to other matters of national concern, while his aides and supporters took a new hard line on Watergate, accusing his critics of badgering him for partisan and selfish purposes...
...Tanaka's jet landed at Bangkok's airport, there were only about 100 orderly protesters waving signs. Read one: TAKE BUT NEVER GIVE. Another said: SELFISH. For a brief moment, Tanaka dared hope that his agreement to meet with Thailand's powerful student leaders had defused plans for mass demonstrations. But his hopes were short-lived...
Unfortunately that is but the talk of her better moods. Most of the time she's a torn woman--torn between her fantasies and fears, between claiming her right to be selfish and guilt for asserting the claim, between the sexual dependence she was educated to need and the independence feminism declared as her right. Remember that Erica writes large; she's nothing if she's not subtle, and she hits you with her contradictoriness like a grease...