Word: selfishnesses
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...raiser. Calling the first press conference in the bank's 108-year history, President Eugene H. Adams declared that "We are very mad about this situation." Next day First National further vented its anger by placing full-page newspaper ads to denounce what it described as a "blatant, selfish attempt of a part-time Coloradan turned New York Wall Street raider to take over...
...theme these days-national unity. "However strong, however prosperous, however just its purposes or noble its cause," he told a dinner of Cook County Democrats, "no nation can long endure when citizen is turned against citizen, cause against cause, section against section, generation against generation by the mean and selfish spirit of partisanship...
...Enough! Don't you think it time you end your attack on Robert Kennedy? He has proved himself an excellent statesman, leader and politician through his own doing and actions in the Senate. Many say he is a selfish opportunist. I ask you, why should he not take advantage of the conditions within the Democratic Party and the nation? Who do you suppose gave the national emphasis to such causes as opposing the war, the racial problem and the neglected rights of minority groups? I contend that R.F.K. opened the path for others to follow-Eugene McCarthy being...
...case-aide workers are probably not altruistic, but selfish, in the sense that they are very eager to prove something about themselves. But this effort to prove themselves is also an effort to grow and should not be seen in any other light than that. It isn't really selfishness. I guess, to want to grow, but it isn't altruism. They're not going in masochistically...
...support. So last week argued Alan Pifer, president of New York's Carnegie Corporation, in a frank and chilling analysis of the nation's academic future. Speaking in Minneapolis, Pifer warned that it was high time for educators in the public and private sectors to stop their selfish factional disputes and get together to help shape new national policies on which federal funding must be based...