Word: selfishnesses
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...turn against management and rush to join unions which often make punitive demands on management? Using the Freudian "psychodynamic" approach, Dr. McMurry holds that today's adult "is not nearly so far removed from childhood as people think ... In an increasingly complex socio-economy, we are dealing with selfish, dependent, hedonistic, wishful-thinking, amoral and quite immature individuals, emotionally like a child of four...
...place and another, 31-year-old Headmaster Eric Johnson* of the Friends' Central School in Philadelphia had known many a badly behaved parent-the selfish, the complaining, the foolish. But there were some parents he and his teachers thought were wonderful. Last week, in his own Parents' Bulletin, he told what sort they were...
...went into secret session and confirmed the original list, adding Brigadier General Peron's name at its head. That left the President in a pretty pickle. How could he be so immodest as to make himself a major general? How, on the other hand, could he be so selfish as to return the list unapproved, thus holding up the promotions of 60 worthy officers? At week's end he found a neat solution: President Peron scratched out General Peron's name, then signed...
Heaven only knows how it must make the Congressmen feel-and I suspect they have no feelings at all except their own selfish ones-but surely the people themselves ought to feel terribly ashamed: 1) that they elected such fatheads and drunkards to office, and 2) that there apparently is no way to keep these guys from going to Europe...
Since the U.S. cannot dodge foreign responsibilities, Flanders added, its objective should be the "material prosperity of the American citizen and the preservation of his freedom." This isn't really selfish, he said, because the United States could do little for others in a depression...