Word: selfishnesses
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...Desert. He calls her Mara, which, he says, is what the Israelites called the bitter water they found in the desert. (Mara is also the name of the tempter of the Buddha.) She, along with every other woman in the movie, is portrayed as evil; all are vain, selfish, deceitful. There is only one exception, a midget, who is childish and faithful like...
Sometimes, says Beverly, "you try to be all things to all people. Well, a great tragedy in your life makes you decide it's not so necessary to please everybody. Now I can afford to be selfish." An example of what she means by selfishness is deliberately raising her fees so high that, in some cases, engagements will fall through, leaving her free to be with her family...
Though there is satire on Arnolphe's attempt to dominate and mold Agnes in School for Wives, its theme is simpler and more universal: love conquers narrowness and selfish obsessions. Moliere's genius is in depicting a character who is the apotheosis of some short-sighted way of looking at the world, and in gleefully and decisively destroying that viewpoint. Arnolphe, though made human and rather sympathetic by Bedford (who is simply too likeable an actor to portray total evil), loses, and deserves to lose; his snivelling retreat while the happy lovers embrace is the high point of the play...
...simple-minded that we are satisfied by yellow men dying instead of white and black? I cannot swallow the media's apathy theory. It is not apathy that has infected and paralyzed student protest. It is despair--a despair rooted in weariness and supported by the selfish but short-lived convenience of inaction...
...thought of individual relationships as a flight from the existential reality of individual responsibility to the whole, to the people. I considered it selfish to look for same individual to touch and hold and understand, because all my time belonged to all of the people...people who (especially in the joint) looked for another individual to relate to, instead of the people's struggle--full time, (were) lonely, (were) weak...