Word: selfishnesses
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...nucleus of the groups consists of several current and choice Harvard professors, notably "Puffer" Wiggam, master of Bromfield House, whose monocled eyes can only see the old school tie when it comes to applications to his house; A. R. Boyer, psychologist and professional Westerner; and Harry Keith, selfish and neurotic professor of History and Literature whose ambition, plus his predilection for other women, causes him to abandon his dipsomaniacal wife. If the parallelism is not one to one, quite clearly Miss Howe's Harvard faculty found its inspiration in the real thing...
...Thirty-nine second-grade children of the Takamiya Primary School here went on strike against the highhanded and selfish manner of their teachers in disposing of crops from the school vegetable gardens, cultivated by the children...
...public was quick to denounce the selfish, greedy Railway Brotherhoods who were willing to sacrifice the welfare of a nation to achieve their own petty aims. The press leaped to the attack; scalding front page Philippics placed the curse of God and the fourth estate on the heads of the striking unions. Yet public and press alike have been unwilling to recognize the transcendent issues which the strike has spotlighted-issues whose ramifications extend far beyond the points of contention in the recent strike...
Potshots and Self-Pity. A typical Chekhov study of frustration, the play is over, in a sense, before it starts: all that is left to most of its people is recriminations and regrets. A selfish mediocrity whose family pampered him and thought him great, Professor Serebryakou is peevish now for having got nowhere, for having got old. Middleaged, rust-covered Vanya -who has sacrificed his life to the professor and declared too late his love for the professor's shallow, pretty wife-wallows in self-pity, and when finally roused to rage takes potshots at the professor-and misses...
...contribution," he said magnanimously, "to our nation's economy, which is being imperiled by the stupidity and selfish greed of the coal operators and associated financial interests and by demagogues who have tried to lash the public mind into a state of hysteria...