Word: selfishnesses
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...Versailles' Big Four-Wilson, Lloyd George, Orlando, Clemenceau-only Clemenceau really impressed Schwarzschild. The old Frenchman's attitude, denounced the world over as a fatally stupid and selfish policy, was actually, says Schwarzschild, the only sensible policy. Only the Tiger understood that Germany was a jungle to be controlled for France's sake and the world's. Says Schwarzschild...
Armand Tokatyan, Bulgarian-born of Armenian parents, Egyptian-raised, Italian-trained, U.S.-naturalized tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, protested in fluent English ("My wife is highly emotional, selfish, headstrong, insanely jealous, quarrelsome and irresponsible") against his better half's plea for $250 weekly alimony pending separation. He said she once told him: "Your voice stinks." He also said, while denying various charges, that when a policewoman pinched him at Macy's lingerie counter, it was not because he had pinched her first...
...been loyal to him, even to the point of fighting Partisans who fought for his country's liberation. His power stemmed from Winston Churchill and the British Government, determined to meet Russia's minimum demands for a remodeled, broadened Yugoslav Government. Britain's interest was intelligently selfish: a solution which satisfied Russia, embraced Tito and preserved the monarchy was the only one which could also preserve at least a vestige of British influence in that part of the Mediterranean world...
Health & Taxes. Phil Wrigley says that all his business practices are "selfish." (He recently canceled all his insurance because the new tax law made it liable to estate taxes along with his other assets.) He has not in recent years collected his full salary ($75,000), and does not expect to miss it much now. He has always docked himself for the time he spent on extracurricular business, notably two other interests inherited from his father: famed Catalina Island, off the coast of California, and the Chicago Cubs (who finished fifth in the National League last year...
...communicate as intensely as he feels it) that American history is epical and epochmaking, James Truslow Adams has held up against his naturally hopeful outlook the insistent forebodings of the U.S. future that his knowledge gave him. In 1934 he wrote: "We are all of us caught, the selfish and the unselfish alike, in the complexities of the modern order. . . . No previous problem has ever made such demands on the highest qualities of both mind and character. It is possible that the world may prove lacking in one or both. . . ." By 1937 his fears had grown more specific: "There...