Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winners derive enormous moral solace from believing that their self-interest is the same as society's interest. The success in the intellectual climate of the 1980s of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty and Charles Murray's Losing Ground, two books which argue that helping the poor hurts everyone, bear testimony to the power of this sentiment...
...Friday night in Burlington, Vt., Cleary broke this self-imposed rule by starting Roy in net on a day clearly marked as Hughes' turn...
...this "all or nothing" symbolic victory, randomization would sacrifice much good in the community, without even guaranteeing that diversity's goals would be upheld. For nowhere in an incompletely diverse American can one find the road to equality perfectly paved over. It seems artificial, extreme, and self-defeating to attempt to do so so forcibly here, no matter how much we would like...
...Your combination of dreary conceit and vulnerability...[has caused you to] become the victim of your own self-importance, which hides your inner problems...
...behalf of the staff of the Harvard Independent, I wish to express my strongest displeasure with the gratuitous and obnoxious Reporter's Notebook entry which ran in your publication last Saturday. Not only do such digs read as the product of a self-important but grossly insecure Crimson editorial staff, they also do great damage to the ostensibly communal society of campus publications...