Word: selfishnesses
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...heartwarming experience to view the photographs of the Castro executions. Latin American politicos for the most part are graft-ridden, selfish individuals, and it is a good omen to see youth and virility in the figure of a man like Castro. He is justified in being irritated with the condemnation of his "war criminal" trials. Wishy-washy humanitarians in this country (who lisp, ''My, isn't he awful? He must stop that.") must make Castro laugh...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13--President Eisenhower pictured the American public today as beginning to realize that they are in a contest with selfish interests who favor federal spending in their behalf...
...bored. She married, in turn, a couple of impeccable British aristocrats, but she went on loving Armand-to the point of helping him to rob her own guests. But in the end she realized that she could never possess him as other women possess their men. "He was a selfish, egotistical, self-indulgent man who loved nothing but humanity . . . She had been unlucky. She could have loved a gambler, an opium addict, a common thief, a drunkard-but no, it had to be an idealist...
This last is the point of the return of Jimmy's wife, which is motivated less metaphysically by their powerful sexual love. It is hard to imagine any other motivation being sufficiently strong, for Jimmy is a bad lot: a slander-mouthed railer, a malicious, nasty, monstrously selfish barbarian, and a bit of a paranoiac as well. His creator views him with a bracingly cool eye, never veiling him in a romantic haze, never losing his objectivity, explaining but not excusing. Since the author never loses sight of the fact that his hero is a "bloody bastard," the audience...
...ANGELES MIRROR-NEWS: ONCE again the G.O.P. was portrayed as the party of the rich, the selfish and of "big business." And once again the Democratic party appeared as that of the little fellow, the workingman and of "the middle class." A reconstructed Republican party has a priceless opportunity today. For between the nether wings of both major parties, there exists a tremendous vacuum, aching to be filled...