Word: selfishnesses
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Lion & Unicorn. Philosopher D'Arcy is mainly concerned with the twofold aspect of love-eros (love in its selfish, passionate forms) and agape (the selfless Christian love for one's neighbor, which Paul called "charity"). Most philosophical speculation on the subject has posed these two as ancient enemies. They have sometimes been symbolized by the Lion (eros) and the Unicorn (agape) which "went fighting round the town...
...conflict is unnecessary, says Father D'Arcy. After ranging from Aristotle to Jung, he echoes the traditional Catholic synthesis between Greek and biblical elements, concluding that Christian love must be both selfish and selfless...
Sultry, sensuous Chloe Delaplain, 18, flew into a rage. "Obscene-obscene picador," she screamed that day in 1875, in a voice that shook the Delaplain brownstone mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y. Selfish sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...
...Department didn't want Doc Blanchard & Glenn Davis to be selfish about their pro football (TIME, Feb. 10). Nevertheless, it would be all right for Messrs. Inside & Outside to make a movie on summer leave, the Department announced, and added the wistful hint that sometime soon another film could be shot on West Point's handsome campus...
...awake in his sleeper berth, a New England businessman pondered the problem of reconciling his business and his God. When he got back to Bristol, R.I., William H. Smith went to his boss (who is also his brother) and said: "Business is rather a selfish institution. What can we do that is unselfish?" He had an answer ready for his own question: hire a clergyman, at company expense, to further Christianity in New England...