Word: selfishnesses
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Nothing so irritates Harry Bridges, now 62, as the notion that the automation agreement means that he is mellowing. Says he: "We've merely adopted a very selfish, narrow program to take care of the people in our union." Yet others insist that he really enjoys his new status. Explains Bridges' "friendly foe," Maritime Negotiator J. Paul St. Sure: "It got a little trying for him to hear all the time about what a rough s.o.b. he was. He likes his present role." Although Bridges lives in a modest two-bedroom house with his third wife Noriko...
...rare visits to the tub. A cigarette is permanently glued to his lip. His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night. He has no discernible trade and lives on the dole as if he had earned it. He is selfish, improvident, coarse, arrogant and bullying. "Don't stand out there in the cold, lass," he says to his sister-in-law, come to pay a visit. "Buzz off." His name is Andy Capp, and he is the newest folk hero of the comic strips...
...calling for inaction and background financial support from the whites. We're not after country clubs or moving into exclusive suburba. We want more Negro truck drivers. Our goals are selfish and parochial; our organizational structure is undemocratic. This is the way we want to do things, and I think this is the way we have to do them. Things had better change or, I'm afraid, something will happen...
...beginning of the experiment, the residents of Bertram Hall will boycott it by taking box lunches or eating in the Graduate Center. Radcliffe meals are far from perfect, and Bertram's opposition to this attempt to improve them--like other complants at this early stage--is short-sighted and selfish...
...Economic Justice: "The wealthier classes should recognize the respect by the church for private property in its essential forms . . . its constant, vigilant warnings on the moral and social dangers of selfish wealth, on the necessity of a more just distribution of economic goods. The social doctrine of the church has never denied the function of private enterprise, provided this does not damage human dignity and the legitimate aspirations of those who take part in the productive process...