Word: selfishnesses
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...specifically in upholding a framework of segregation from which they profit. This is a phenomenon that has received little attention in the North. Then too, many members of Atlanta's black bourgeoisie take advantage of the hazy distinction between personal and social advance to indulge private (sometimes selfish) ambitions in the name of civil rights. As for the "courageous freedom fighters," the question is not whether we in the North admire them, but whether we accurately assess the percentage of the Negro populace they represent...
...amount of dynamiting and shooting, however, can win the battle. The striking miners feel oppressed by rich, selfish operators, but the operators, while not poor, are faced with a diminishing market for their coal. A dozen years ago eastern Kentucky enjoyed reasonable prosperity. Now, with heavy competition from oil and the large, highly mechanized coal mines, the operators of the small mines are squeezed; the Kentucky miners have been forced into poverty by the depression in the industry...
...that has had its greatest boom during the man-short years following World War II. The main reason for its growth, says an official in Bonn's family ministry, is that "there is a lack of real social life in West Germany today-we have become a little selfish and don't concern ourselves much with our fellow men." Known by the unromantic name of Ehlanbahnunsgewerbe -literally, the marriage-initiating business-it has inevitably attracted many brokers less interested in mating souls than coining Deutsche marks. "There are as many serious marriage agencies as there are Cabinet members...
...favorable to France. His Francophobia deepened with the years, and in 1957 he warned the U.S. against relying on France to defend Europe, adding querulously: "I don't know why the world doesn't catch on to those French-they're stupid, weak, stubborn and selfish." After Morocco won its independence. King Mohammed V tried to placate the old exile and persuade him to return home. He sent a donation of $14,000, but Krim refused the money and threw away the royal letter because it addressed him as a plain subject, not a prince...
...task Charles de Gaulle had set himself. In the long run, it was creation of a Gaullist third force in the great-powers equation. En route, he was rejecting supranational Europe, brushing aside the proposed multilateral nuclear deterrent to preserve total weapons sovereignty for himself, rebuffing Britain for frankly selfish political reasons, and, in fact, rejecting the whole Atlantic Community concept with its overtones of American participation. It was perhaps the U.S. voice in Europe that De Gaulle feared most. He was even preparing to control the influx of American capital into France with tight new financial regulations (see WORLD...