Word: selfishnesses
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...little left of the Geneva spirit after this tour of South Asia." Or as U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles put it in his Chicago speech: "A huge, materialistic state, thwarted in its efforts to aggrandize itself by force [is trying] coldly and cruelly ... to exploit for its selfish ends the aspirations of the peoples of less-developed lands...
...agree, also, that we must not approach the difficult national problem of greatly increased numbers wanting higher education in the next generation in any narrow, provincial or selfish spirit. We have a profound concern as citizens and as members of a university community with the kind of education the coming generation will have, and we have an obligation to the nation and to Harvard to do our full duty. But what is our duty? Here Harvard men will disagree, as usual...
Wasteful Ways. Today the belly of Paris is badly upset. And the symptoms it suffers from are those that afflict all France-the paralysis of outworn tradition, the plague of overorganized centralization, the jealous persistence in selfish ways. The tradition began in 1134, when King Louis the Fat picked out a quiet meadow on Paris' outskirts for the food marketeers. The meadow has long since been surrounded by the center of burgeoning Paris, but no one has been able to dislodge Les Halles, though it is two miles from the main railroad stations and set in a tortuous network...
...Smith's Kindergarten mamas are truly considering their children's best interests, and how many are just anxious to have a glorified baby-sitter for a few hours a day [Sept. 5]. Won't parents ever learn to stop pushing their children to satisfy their own selfish desires? Immaturity in a child meeting the school situation for the first time often means headaches for the teacher and parents, and sometimes develops in the child a dislike for school that can not easily be erased. Perhaps this incident will stimulate some work on a new and better standardized...
...article on the "Male at Bay" and wish to go on record as agreeing 100% with John Fischer. As a WAVE during the Korean crisis, as well as when serving on active duty during World War II, I have seen the effects on American manhood of these thoroughly selfish American women-both wives and career women, who consider themselves far too intelligent and attractive to lower themselves by becoming wives and mothers...