Word: selfishnesses
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...might lend confidence to prospective politicians. But Crane continues, "I'm surprised that more people do not run for political office. Many well-qualified men do not enter politics because they have not recognized this public life as a career. In most cases today, the man, through his own selfish desires, seeks the office; seldom does the office seek the well-qualified...
Egypt's ruling class, as stupid, selfish and corrupt as any in the wor,ld, is unconcerned. This summer, as in every summer, the rich fled screeching, scorching Cairo and were relaxing in cool Alexandria or, like their King, on the Riviera. When they return to Cairo later in the fall, their womenfolk diamond-studded and sheathed in Parisian gowns, they will take up life in a small world of their own, which moves between exclusive clubs, theaters and palaces. They own most of Egypt's land, pay ludicrously small taxes...
Does the typical private school turn out weak and selfish citizens? "The independen school, like the public high schools in prosperous suburbs, sometimes deals with students whose chief spiritual staff is a silver spoon and whose main intellectual reliance is a successful ancestor . . . Whether the independent school deals with able, mediocre, or limited students, it undertakes to train all in high standards of academic work and performance . . . One great challenge . . . remains: that of finding a means of imparting to all . . . graduates a lasting motivation...
...major had always been a somber, selfish man. But after his retirement from the British army in 1942, he also became moody, bad-tempered and depressed. At 55, he was deep in debt and drinking too much. He had delusions that he was being persecuted, and talked of suicide...
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (Filmakers; RKO Radio), a title that conjures up visions of a wanton wench on the marquee, turns out to apply to nothing more alluring than a tennis ball. The heroine (Sally Forrest) is a teen-aged tennis virtuoso whose selfish, frustrated mother (Claire Trevor) exploits the girl's talent to wangle a life of ease, travel and glamour...