Word: selfishnesses
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...moderates, for their part, must continue to demand amnesty for the University Hall demonstrators. It is inconceivable to abandon the group which at great personal risk forced the necessary consideration of the issue. Furthermore, the moderates should join SDS in scrutinizing the University's often shamelessly selfish dealings with the Cambridge community...
...question whether King is missed more by whites or Negroes. Some whites, if for selfish reasons, look back to his nonviolent ideals with something like nostalgia. The black reaction is more complicated. Atlanta Attorney Howard Moore says: "No one can take his place. If God is gone, you don't say that there is a vacuum. You say that God is gone." Yet most thoughtful blacks today would reject this exaggeration. The Rev. Channing Phillips, a black favorite-son candidate from Washington at last year's Democratic Convention, insists that the time is past when...
...give the members of Congress the strength to place patriotism above selfish interest. Let the voice of freedom ring in America, as well as in the paddyfields of Viet...
Positive: Steadfast, reserved, traditional, ambitious Negative. Snobbish, unscrupulous, selfish Career: Ambassador, ruler, organizer, religious
...long-suffering, constipated husband (whose constipation seems to rival Luther's in cosmic significance.) Togther they praise and badger Portnoy until he finds himself in a paradoxical position: his family considers him among "princes . . . and saviours and sheer perfection on the one hand, and such bumbling incompetent, thoughtless, helpless, selfish, evil little shits, little ingrates, on the other!" Having made a career out of adolescent masturbation (because it "was all I really had that I could call my own"), graduating to complicated sexual perversions in maturity, Portnoy himself can't reconcile the dichotomy between his public and private life...