Word: selfishnesses
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...Abortion is all the uglier a crime in that it is committed by a person who has, by his own free will, assumed a responsibility for the baby which might result from the act. What sort of love is there in this? The drive for abortion seems rather a selfish move of the middle class to rid themselves of their own inconvenient children or the inconvenient children of the poor and minorities, whom they would rather kill than pay taxes to support...
Mailer is at least honest about the corner of the jail in which he sits. He admits his biases quite plainly. "His sympathies," he tells us, "remained with his own sex." If this avowal seems selfish, remember that the first Principle of the New York Radical Women, a liberationist group started about a year and a half ago, is similarly one-sided. They declared in their initial affidavit, "We take the woman's side in everything...
...Congress v. Nixon" [Feb. 1]: Good grief! If TIME is telling us the truth, my worst fears have been confirmed. Your article paints the U.S. Congress as nothing but a squabbling group of selfish six-year-olds playing king-of-the-hill and to hell with the public interest...
...students' bitterness came from the rapidity with which many decisions about housing had been made that spring, with little or no consultation with students. Bunting felt at the time that the hunger strike was organized by juniors who had not received permission to live in apartments, for their own selfish motives. On the second day of the five-day protest (which ended with a negotiating committee being formed), she said, "They're perfectly free to express their opinion, but we can't do anything...
...fill its place with counterfeits, some of which lead in the end to contempt for man." One symptom of such contempt, the Pope seemed to imply, might be Australia's discriminatory immigration restrictions. "Do not close your limited circle," he said at one point, "for the sake of selfish satisfaction...