Word: selfishnesses
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...Your attempt to put down the 1950s generation [June 29] as a bunch of selfish, unfeeling nonsensitives stuck in my craw...
...social ties. A New York City policeman who was raised in California and saw combat with the Army in Viet Nam, Stanley is an American tumbleweed of no discernible ethnic background. He is a composite of what Author Faust apparently takes to be typical urban America-rootless, tough, guiltlessly selfish and easily moved by chance winds...
...existence of an autonomous women's liberation movement has helped many women, including myself, in one important way. It has given us the moral support to say once and for all that we are not inadequate human beings, selfish mothers, or castrating females for making the justifiable demands on men and on society that we be treated as full human beings, not as sex objects, nurses, or servants...
...necessary to establish blame for the mess in which we find ourselves, it should be placed on us parents, who have abdicated the responsibility to give our children the direction they need. Many of our generation have gone on our selfish way, expecting our children to grow automatically into completely mature human beings. Then, when our young act like the non-adults that most of them legally are, we are completely shocked...
...American opinion, a man who understands that people in power usually have deep complicity in their own isolation. But I am not interested in indicting the President, because I believe that virtually all of us have failed in our duty as Americans. While each of us pursues his selfish interest and comforts himself by blaming others, the nation disintegrates. I use the phrase soberly: the nation disintegrates...