Word: selfishnesses
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This predicament cannot be resolved by organizational meetings involving relatively few people, raising money, and treating it lightly; those who have somehow been jolted into an awareness of what lies ahead must communicate their sense of emergency to others of all nations, for it is not an ignoble or selfish fear, which can be ridiculed, ignored, or soothed. Only as every individual is moved by this larger concern and allows it to affect his own life, to intensify his attitudes, will "those in charge" be forced to listen to him and to make the discontinuation of nuclear testing the primary...
...expressive music of Ravi Shanker. If Aparajito has a climax, it is the scene in which the boy learns of his mother's death. His wordless tears express his grief, his shame at not having cared enough for her while she liver, and at the same time his selfish need to make his own life a success in spite of his loss. Perhaps the boy brings such dignity to his role because he is not a professional actor, but just an ordinary human being...
...Gaya-Nuňo, director of Madrid's Velasquez Institute, becomes outraged whenever he thinks about the steady flight of European art treasures to the U.S. But he does not put all the blame on the Americans. Says he, in the French magazine Connaissance des Arts: It is selfish and dollar-mad Europeans who have really done the damage...
...Brother Berry-berry who holds the key to the family's happiness as well as to their despair. Tall, handsome, irresistible to women, brutal and meanly selfish, he bums around the country, calling home only when he needs money. His bemused mother adores him, pathetically unaware that he hates her. His father, a rude, free-thinking eccentric of a kind increasingly rare in the U.S., insists that the boy is only sampling life and will turn out well. When Berry-berry unexpectedly shows up at home, the Williamses have a brief interlude of unaccustomed happiness. He falls in love...
...youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism." Even the New York Post's sour-tempered Murray Kempton broke down and confessed that the young man from Boston was "an engaging fellow"-thereby leaving Westbrook Pegler almost alone to carry the dissent: "A hard, selfish politician with no warm emotional ties...