Word: selfishnesses
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...about the failure of Christianity, but that she had deliberately played that down in her production because her actors didn't want to do a play about Christianity. Apparently the skinny guy in the blue silk shirt who blows trumpet is an okay guy, and everyone else represents the selfish elements of civilization. But I'm probably misquoting her, so I'll stop the plot analysis here...
...Diem regime to prepare them for free debate or the subtleties of constitution making. Because they were all too representative-Buddhist, Catholic, Chinese, Montagnard, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai-fragmentism and special pleading became the order of the day. Among the first orders that went out were for selfish perks: drinking water on their desks, more electric fans, a request (withdrawn on second thought) for private cars at their disposal...
...springtime-sunny Sunday in the South, particularly in Georgia, where Sherman's march cut such a vast swath, a widespread (and individually selfish) safari of as many as 500 relic collectors can be found crisscrossing carefully over the once bloodied ground. Each wears earphones connected to a long-handled ground-sweeper disk, powered by transistor batteries, which transmits a constant hum through the earphones. Whenever it finds metal, there is a sudden crescendo to the hum, the signal to dig for an antique that may be anywhere from an inch to 6 ft. down, since little of any value...
...radcials also to defend 2-S. After all, as Brecht says: When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming. And shouldn't revolutionaries act just like the exploiting class they would, allegedly, overthrow? Let us not act in the interest of the collective! Selfish opportunism is what capitalism trains people to expect. Don't scare the j"spoon fed" masses with some newfangled morality...
...supposed to adhere, Shanker said, is actually militarism. "Obey the principal and shut up. That's professional," he quipped. In addition, it has always been considered unprofessional to come to the bargaining table frankly concerned about an increase in teacher salaries. "Teachers have the right to be as selfish as any other group in our society. This doesn't conflict with the idea of public service...