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Despite its frequently childish espousal of childlessness, NON makes some valid points. It observes that the cultural bias against childless couples is so strong that husbands and wives cannot choose non-parenthood freely; they know they will be branded selfish, shallow and neurotic. In fact, the organization stresses, motives for parenthood are not always what they seem. Some parents use children, like drugs, to shield them from the realities of life. Others want offspring only to fulfill their own frustrated hopes, to have someone to possess and control, or to ensure financial support in their...
...LIBERAL majority of the Cambridge City Council, by its continued inability to agree on a new City Manager, is demonstrating to the people of this City that supposedly reform-minded politicians can be just as stubborn and selfish as their entrenched, conservative counterparts...
...THOSE in the CIO who envisioned the movement as the future stronghold for labor solidarity, the combined forces of FED, business, and selfish divisive labor leaders destroyed this goal. Despite Lewis's enormous contribution to organized labor, he was incapable of forging real working-class Independence. DeCaux, his close ally, admits, "He had no clear idea of such a goal," Lewis basically played a power politics game within the rules of this system. While on the one hand he responded, almost instinctively to desires of workers, he also dealt with Roosevelt when the need arose...
...action becomes violent when selfish concern for a particular goal overrides consideration for others...
Letter to a Teacher and Wishes, Lies, and Dreamsare eloquent pleas on behalf of taking children seriously. Letter to a Teacher, written by eight Italian farmboys, 13 to 16 years old, challenges not only the selfish individual attitudes of teachers and administrators, but also the class bias of the Italian public school system. Wishes, Lies, and Drams includes an essay by Kenneth Koch on teaching children to write poetry, and 250 pages of children's poems that demonstrate that sensitivity and originality in self-expression are far more than the gifts of a genetically privileged...