Word: selfishnesses
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...friendliness are immediately evident. This amazing conglomeration of roles and relations can exist only, it seems, on the basis of an extraordinary personality. Her character smacks of unusual and invigorating qualities. On the other hand, "I'm selfish," she admits, with an apologetic grin, but her eyes challenge any rebuttal of this self-analysis, "and I'm strong minded." "She's human as hell," a student tries to explain in the face of her intimidating vitae and potoriously merciless academic standards, but you couldn't mistake her for a soft-heeled humanist; she's really a tough...
...latest development in the Pay Board dispute came yesterday, when Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Automobile Workers, became the fourth labor leader to quit the Board. President Nixon called the labor leaders who quit "selfish and irresponsible...
...answer to "Dear Abby"-piously rebuked a reader who asked if Playboy would help him persuade his wife to give up her career. "To deprive her of a chance to feel valuable to herself and society above and beyond the roles of wife and mother would be not only selfish but cruel," the "Adviser" preached in the gassy rhetoric once reserved exclusively for Playboy philosophy. At the same time, the "Adviser" managed to hint that a woman "engaged in work that is meaningful to her" might well become a more pleasing Bunny...
...much information in management is passed along informally at lunches, over drinks and at a bar after work," says a Chicago woman executive. Many male executives still feel profoundly threatened by the thought of working with women of equal or superior rank. Such insecurity often seems petty and selfish. Yet because the business world has for so long served as modern society's parallel to the ancient male hunting-providing experience, the insecurity is also understandable...
Outside the Senate, other voices were being raised against the antibusing trend. United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock charged that Senators, Congressmen and even those "in more exalted political office" (meaning Nixon) were using the busing issue to "polarize races in the hope of selfish political gain." New York's Mayor John Lindsay further endangered his remote presidential chances by telling Florida legislators: "I am for busing because it is often the only way to integrate our schools -and because the alternative, perpetual racial segregation, is far worse." Florida's bold Governor Reubin Askew freely conceded that...