Word: altruism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They hardly did so out of altruism. Rather, both of these top-ranked candidates appear best as orators, but they deteriorate under close questioning...
...second term. As the nation begins to show signs of yearning for a more generous social vision, as the Reagan prosperity prompts a renewed concern for the have-nots both at home and abroad, Reagan sometimes seems behind the wave, exalting individualism rather than a more lasting sense of altruism. There are time bombs for which Reagan has responsibility. The nation's debt service alone consumes $140 billion a year, or 14% of the budget, roughly twice the percentage of a decade...
...sectors. The use of economic incentives would attract only the less-advantaged and again not provide for the common civic effort that would undermine the psychological bases for bigotry, sexism and class divisions. Incidentally, I find it puzzling that the editors who argue that citizenship should be motivated by altruism would advocate economic incentives for its exercise...
...jump in voluntarism, then, is difficult to explain. What some students and administrators dismiss as efforts by students to stuff their resumes, others prefer to greet as a rebirth of on-campus altruism. One intermediate explanation, advanced by Epps, is that students have begun to realize that they can devote a few hours a week to service without feeling obliged to spend most of their lives on public work. "Harvard students have strived for and achieved a balance so that it's not all or nothing. They have found that they can pursue their studies and at the same time...
Another important source of the increased altruism is the media attention devoted to the famine throughout Africa. "Famine is always there but you can't sustain the coverage. But I think the Ethipia crises gave a push for us," says Troy A. Davis '87, treasurer of Cyclists Fighting Hunger...