Word: selfishnesses
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...letters a week. Her postwar mail is loaded with missives from faithless war wives, bewildered veterans, bobby-soxers who want to know how to grow up. Everybody gets an answer; in the case of suicidal correspondents it goes by airmail. Often it is the same answer ("Men are a selfish lot," etc.) that worked half a century ago. But the questions have changed, from "Should I help a gentleman on with his coat?" to "Is it all right for me to spend a weekend in Atlanta with a boy friend...
...When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can perfection be expected? It therefore astonishes men to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does...
...Stop Hollering." Looking at this poor advertisement for the nationalization program which had swept them into office, some British Labor Ministers began to rant at the "selfish minority" of miners who were holding up British recovery. Not all their followers went with them. In a radio broadcast last month, black-haired, black-eyed, hyperenergetic Xenia Field (prewar playwright and golf champion, now Deputy Director of Britain's Supply Ministry) told her fellow Laborites to stop hollering at the miners and give them more to eat. In Holland, where miners got 5,248 calories a day (British miner...
...expected date, was another triumph for patient, hard-driving Special Envoy Marshall, who had been a mainspring and balance wheel in the difficult negotiations. He called it "the great hope of China," voiced the hope "that its pages will not be soiled by small groups of irreconcilables, who for selfish purposes would defeat the Chinese . . . desire for . , . peace and prosperity...
...desired objectives . . . can not be reached if we are led to expect more and more for less and less effort; if labor organizations or industrial organizations are to take purely selfish positions that block the road to production and distribution; or if political leaders are unwilling to face a reduction in Government expenditures and are to assume that a policy of deficit financing can succeed any better in the future than it did in the decade 1930-40. The result of these can be nothing but the debasement of our currency and a lowering of the standard of living...