Word: selfishnesses
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...heir. In her search for a sanctuary where she can hide the boy and await the return of her lover from the imperial army, she meets with nothing but greed and hostility from the frightened peasants and rapacious lust from the soldiers. Her efforts to confront a culture of selfish barbarism with some compassion and decency only estrange her from her lover and mark her as a doomed woman in the eyes of the peasants. The act culminates in a surrealistic, semi-improvised dream sequence, where the characters, each physicalizing his own brand of hatred, converge on the girl from...
...even more absurd is that Paul Katz, a Yale swimmer, competed in the Games with the NCAA's full approval. So Langer's and Yale's, persecution smacks strongly of pawn-pushing on the NCAA's part. And when the NCAA begins to exploit its members for its own selfish interests, it is time to seriously debate whether it has outlived its usefulness. By insisting that it will continue to keep Langer on its varsity squad, Yale hopes to provoke that debate, but unless the Ivics support Yale to the utmost- and that means withdrawal from the NCAA- the Elis...
...California, as elsewhere, many disaffected rightists turned to Ayn Rand; whose objectivist teachings elevated capitalism from economics to religion. Rand shares Buckley's fear, if not his paranoia, about communism; but she philosophizes that communism can be defeated only by capitalism-the rational, selfish, non-altruistic, objective relationship of free people in a free enterprise system. Buckley and his followers, she feels, are traitors to capitalism and are the antithesis of all the qualities a capitalist needs; i. e., Buckleyites are irrational, romantic, superstitious, altruistic, and too confused by their worship of "tradition" to be objective...
...NCAA has gone too far when it begins to exploit its member colleges for its own sometimes selfish purposes. Clearly, Yale is little more than the battleground for another in a series of dreary NCAA-AAU squabbles, and the penalizing of Yale, in sanctimonious frustration, makes the Bulldogs little more than whipping boys...
...erogenous zone." Young Actress Anjelica Huston conceded that her father, John Huston, should never have cast her in A Walk with Love and Death. She found herself "no good, awful. There's so many young girls waiting for the opportunity, dying ... I shouldn't have been that selfish." On an earlier show, during a discussion on world overpopulation, Arthur Godfrey leaned over, asked David, "Wanna know a secret?," and then told a nationwide audience that he had himself sterilized. How is one's sex life after the operation? Said Godfrey: "Even better...