Word: selfishnesses
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What is needed now, said Hoadley, is to restore confidence in the U.S. economy. He called for new incentives to the public to begin buying hard goods again "for their own selfish good" and tangible evidences of business improvement that go beyond a seasonal pickup. Most of all, the public must get the feeling that the worst is over or that, at least, it will not be too bad. "We are not being pessimistic, but realistic. The greatest possible danger is a secondary shock wave later this year or in 1959 when the good news fails to come...
...They are all deeply tragic, and not even the slickness that shows occasionally as the result of her training in whodunits can damage the soundness of her insights. As one teen-age character says of his parents: "They really are quite decent, when one considers how incredibly dense and selfish grownups are." But decency in these stories turns out to be not quite enough...
...fearful tour of the lower depths of London, he has his answer: nothing. His suicide will seem improbable only to grownups who have forgotten the questionings of their own youth. ¶In The Climate of the Lost, a 14-year-old daughter of divorced parents falls victim to the selfish misunderstanding of her mother. Unfolded in a sensuous South of France setting, it is a harrowing case history in which innocent young love is turned into a crushing, puzzling sin by adults whose sensual greeds have corrupted them to the point of monstrousness...
...frozen out of many hospitals by boards under specialists' control and are denied the right to do routine surgery in them. Cried G.P. Phelps: "Great damage has been done and much public distrust of the entire profession has resulted from the senile mouthings of spokesmen and the selfish, shortsighted policies of at least one self-anointed national professional group. The financial ring of their concern is very hollow. They insult the intelligence of the public when they believe people do not see the big dollar sign through the sham of their propaganda." Wild Oklahoma broncos would not drag...
...friend, ex-U.S. Defense Secretary Roger Thurloe (a fictional double of the late James Forrestal), exhausted and embittered by the spectacle of U.S. fumbling in the face of Communism, jumps to death from a hospital window. Ro's wife dies of cancer; their two sons mature into selfish little parasites. And Lancaster is left trying to recapture his lost youth with a paltry redhead...