Word: selfishnesses
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...only one idea in my life?a true idée fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible?the idea of having my own way. 'Control' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought...
...complaints are minor," Peggy insists. "Ninetynine percent of the time, having Peter is a joy." Moreover, she believes, and her friends confirm, that she has changed for the better: "I've become a much softer person. I treat people with more kindness, and I'm less selfish...
...Selfish and Callous. At a press conference, Giants' President Wellington Mara piously insisted that he was moving to New Jersey only to provide Giant fans with a better place to watch the team play. Clearly, though, a main motive was money. The Mara family has run the Giants on a shoestring since Wellington's father Tim bought the New York franchise in 1925 for a piddling $500. Said Tim at the time: "A New York franchise in anything is worth that much, including one for shining shoes." It certainly was. Though the football Giants were subtenants all their...
...York's official reaction was immediate, justifiable anger. Mayor John Lindsay attacked the Giants' ownership as "selfish, callous and ungrateful"; he insisted he would pursue the city's present plan to buy Yankee Stadium and renovate it for $24 million, in order to keep at least the Yankees in town. Lindsay also said that he would seek another National Football League franchise to cohabit with the Yankees, but the odds on that seemed slim. For one thing, unanimous approval of all N.F.L. teams is required to shift one franchise into the home territory of another, and both...
...which he can devote his life. But first he must come to an understanding with the father he hardly knows, and this father, Versilov, has already passed beyond all "ideas" into a kind of religion of despair. The son is what many of us once were: passionate, deluded, selfish, idealistic. The father is what many of us will become: shrewd, equivocal, weary, compassionate. Father and son argue, they fight, they even compete over the same woman (neither one succeeding), and finally they are reconciled...