Word: selfishnesses
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...married daughter (Harriet Andersson) and her doctor husband (Max von Sydow), all on vacation on an isolated Baltic island. The daughter, who has recently been electroshocked out of schizophrenia, is trying to face the difficult facts of her life: a devoted husband whom she does not love, a selfish father whose love she needs but cannot have, an ego that stands fascinated, like a rabbit, before the great snake of the unconscious...
...snake that has led us all to doom. Somehow he fails to see that self-realization, far from being morally shallow and a goal that produces "a democracy of desire," is the one most noble and difficult task of our lives. To Phenix, self-fulfillment is equated with selfish ambition, acquisition and success. It is obvious that he has distorted the meaning of fulfillment...
...That the world, man and his culture are neither self-sufficient nor self-explanatory, but are derived from given sources of being, meaning and value. That the supremely worthful is not finite or limited but transcends all human comprehension and every human achievement. That the life of selfish ambition, the struggle for autonomy, acquisition and success, and attachment to finite goods, lead in the end to misery, conflict, guilt, despair, boredom and frustration. That every individual has a personal calling to turn from following after desire to a life of loving and grateful dedication to what is of ultimate worth...
Stations which have recently cancelled their Code subscriptions maintain that broadcasters join the Code for two strictly selfish reasons...
...attention has been called to an assertion in your columns that the Faculty has been selfish about scholarship funds. Since your zestful editorialist has directed against others an attack that should properly be aimed at me, I write to remind you that the Faculty as a body does not make financial decisions. The Administration makes them, subject to the final authority of the President and Fellows. Under Mr. Pusey's supervision, I made the decisions on financial aid between 1953 and 1960. The selfishness therefore was mine--and I think Mr. Jencks should understand that any Dean...