Word: selfishnesses
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...rather positive that I speak for untold thousands when I say thank you for your story on Publisher Highland of Clarksburg, W. Va. [He] violates every legitimate concept of journalism, and dissipates its ethics in one broad, selfish sweep...
...Hopper's hysterical warning that "Invasion U.S.A. will scare the pants off you," everyone leaves the R.K.O. Boston fully clothed. The film, a clumsy propaganda package, is never plausible and only occasionally exciting. It opens in a New York bar, where a cattle baron, a pompous Congressman, and a selfish industrialist are ridiculing America's war preparations. After a professional seer has given them visions of a vanquished America, these men leave the bar sadder but wiser. The audience leaves only sadder...
...Easier Life. "No longer will anyone have selfish aims . . . The nation will be given a free and noble life. Everything will be done to see that no one is hungry or ignorant." So proclaimed Naguib's new society. The promises ran far ahead of performance: so far only a handful of Egypt's fellahin, who are among the world's most ill-treated people, have begun to share in Naguib's land redistribution. But one benefit Naguib has already bestowed: the government has made sharp cuts in the cost of basic foodstuffs and clothing. Life...
...appalled! . . . Your Nov. 10 article ... on top California executives and their jobs stuns me. Hard work is admirable. Long working hours, business dinners and homework are often necessary, profitable and understandable. But not when other factors, important in their own way, must be sacrificed. Are these men so selfish that they can go merrily on their way, content in their way of life while their wives are unhappy? These executives didn't marry for love and companionship; they wanted only topnotch housekeepers, who are supposed to run the house, manage the servants, raise the children in a proper fashion...
These executives are not merely ambitious. They are selfish, inconsiderate, injudicious. Nothing is more important than their work (which is in essence themselves) . . . They are extreme egoists . . . Congratulations to the women who left their top executive husbands...