Word: selfishnesses
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...gifts for the family, making holiday cookies for company, the family's going to church together, Christmas carols, the stable under the tree, the smell of turkey, and all the visiting and getting together with family and friends. Christmas is the time when people are a bit less selfish than usual and have more love in their hearts for God and man. Maybe all the externals and trappings of Christmas have got out of hand, but the basic idea is still there. Christmas means the birth of a baby and love-simple things...
...alone with his employer have been replaced by new libertarian appeals for the right of average men to refuse to sell their houses to whom they please. Such average men are notably more numerous in California than in other large states. And the threats to their rather bland and selfish life-style are more pronounced and strident in California than anywhere else in this country...
...Actually," says Weitz, "it's the reader who suffers, but then maybe she really wants to see clothes in awkward poses in bizarre settings. On the other hand, it's my selfish purpose to see my clothes looking beautiful; it's the photographer's selfish purpose to be famous; it's the art director's selfish purpose to have a striking, stylish page; it's the magazine's selfish purpose to sell ads and issues. With all these selfishnesses, you just come up with one big crumbier...
...Some people deliberately try to exploit the colonial hangover for their own selfish purposes, or in order to serve some external force. We must reject such people publicly. It is naive to think that there is no danger of imperialism from the East. In world power politics, the East has as many designs on us as the West. This is why we reject Communism. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism. What we want is Kenya nationalism. There is no place for leaders who hope to build a nation of slogans...
...abhors the organizational mess that is now American education: reactionary teachers' organization, unnecessary regional accrediting agencies, competitively selfish private colleges, disorganized state educational authorities. In some states the highest education officials are elected, with the result that they are "in a relatively weak position, willing tools" of unofficial lobbying groups like the NEA. In others, numerous small colleges compete for what state funds are available, with no central considerations determining the allocation of funds. Conant's answer to these problems, as to integration problems, is greater power at the top, centralization at the state level and full-time education officials...