Word: selfishnesses
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Playwright St. John Ervine (rhymes with "Injun servin' ") ceases to be mild-and well-mannered-only in his irate slashing away at the younger generation (the heroine's smug sons and selfish successor); but the younger generation hits back by refusing to seem convincing. And the older generation, whatever its higher virtues, seems awfully short on verve. So does the production itself, which puts an extra curse on the play...
...selfish will find much to argue with on this point; but those who have any sort of conscience will realize that we who are fortunate enough to live in this land of plenty, should also realize that we are only men also realize that our abuse or our blessings is wrong no master how you took of it. William L. Palusm
...after the picture monthly New World proposed political union of the U.S. and Canada (TIME, Oct. 13), another Canadian voice sang a different song. The U.S., wrote Journalist Leslie Roberts (in a series of articles to be syndicated next week in Canadian and U.S. newspapers), is an inept, conceited, selfish country, drunk with power. Two years ago, said he, friendship between the two countries was at an alltime high. But "in recent months, this feeling has changed sharply. If it has not become hostile, at least it can be described as edgy...
...survival. Man leads a double life, of mind and spirit. If mind is suspect, as in religious fanaticism, man may become a creature only of his instincts; if spirit is suspect, as today when scientific materialism carries such authority, he is in danger of degenerating into a selfish and soulless mechanism. To be a whole man, he must cultivate both parts...
...final analysis, Britain can aid in making Palestine partition both the end of a sorry chapter of modern history and the beginning of a series of objective and successful UN decisions. Or White-Hall can obey its more selfish and malicious instincts, compounded of oil and spite, and plunge Palestine into dissension and bloodshed. The UN has already voiced its decision on partition; it can only call upon Great Britain to demonstrate her faith in world majority decision...