Word: selfishnesses
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...frosting on Author Mitford's story of the happily selfish Montdores is so light and fluffy as to leave the reader wondering whether she is really selling satire or simple nostalgia for the good old prewar and pre-Labor days in Britain...
...dubious message. Escapism, it preaches-some 90 million U.S. moviegoers notwithstanding - does not pay. To prove its point it describes the case of a middle-aged Boston judge (Alexander Knox) who decides one day to "run for his life." Behind him he leaves the responsibilities of his office, a selfish wife and daughter, and the threat of stomach ulcers...
...U.A.W. also attacked General Motors, in a statement by Victor G. Reuther, union educational director, which said: "The privileges of education and the right of a university to educate fairly and honestly are being denied, because of the selfish position taken by one corporation...
...basically the Congress and the President are working together and will continue to work together for the good of the country. We are going to agree on a lot more things than we disagree on. And when the final score for this Congress is added up, some of the selfish pressure groups are going to be pretty badly disappointed...
...East. Selfish and insular Bavaria speaks most clownishly through the separatist Bayernpartei. Its leader, squat, jowly Josef Baumgartner, sums up his creed: "Every German state should be given veto power like that in the U.N." One C.S.U. leader has remarked: "A separatist's happiest dream is somebody to be named Bavarian ambassador in Bern, but the truth is none of them has brains enough to be a vice consul in Venezuela...