Word: altruism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keenly interested in attracting andadmitting candidates who not only give ample proofof academic prowess, but also show evidence ofsuch personal qualities as honesty, fairness,compassion, altruism, leadership, and initiativein their high school years," reads the pamphlet'stext. "We place great value in a candidate'scapacity to move beyond the limits of personalachievement to involvement in the life of thecommunity at large...
...students who are turning away from business may feel that the salad days of corporate deal making are gone, but college advisers also detect a heightened sense of altruism among today's seniors. Says Victoria Ball, director of Brown's career-planning service: "Maybe it's the negative image of yuppies, but students are realizing that money isn't everything in life." Still, most of them will be making more of it than their predecessors...
...transistors and, mostly, just meditating. And even toward those who have killed up to 1.2 million of his people and destroyed 6,254 of his monasteries, he remains remarkably forbearing. "As people who practice the Mahayana Buddhist teaching, we pray every day to develop some kind of unlimited altruism," he says. "So there is no point in developing hatred for the Chinese. Rather, we should develop respect for them and love and compassion...
...time reflecting on how Tibetan Buddhism can teach, and learn from, other disciplines. He believes, for example, that Buddhism can show Marxism how to develop a genuine socialist ideal "not through force, but through reason, through a very gentle training of the mind, through the development of altruism." He sees many points of contact between his faith and "psychology, cosmology, neurobiology, the social sciences and physics. There are many things we Buddhists should learn from the latest scientific findings. And scientists can learn from Buddhist explanations. We must conduct research, and then accept the results. If they don't stand...
...some ways, Superman's relentless virtue goes even beyond virtue. In his extraterrestrial origins and the shining purity of his altruism, some commentators have detected a divine aura. "Superman, I've always thought, is an angel," says Andrew Greeley, gadfly Roman Catholic priest and best-selling novelist. "Probably the angel stories found in all of the world's religions are traces of the work in our world of Superman and his relatives. Who is to say I'm wrong?" Proponents of the angel theory believe it is no accident that when Superman is in full flight, his flared collar...