Word: altruism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rightists are saying this, of course. That Reagan has resisted their cloying complaints offers little encouragement. Instead, his blithe displays of intransigence fly in the face of prudence without serving the cause of altruism. But fusing to take a step back, Reagan has distorted the end of apology, content to put an end to apology...
Such banality in the face of danger should persuade us that the rich are ordinary people, not nobles who feel kinship with peasants. Able only to indulge their ordinariness to a greater extent than most, they mix common human altruism with much selfish silliness. But kindness, though common, resist lumping with the ridiculous mediocrity of Kahn's patrician materialism. As Whitney wrote in 1979, his philanthropic foundation helped those who "have lived with adversity in the form of poverty or discrimination. They lean toward a practical vision of helping friends and neighbors work together on common and immediate problems rather...
...such inventiveness? Something loftier than dollars. Vengeance? Civic duty? It is not surprising to learn that Australia has a subway, being down under, but can that lovely country have possibly reached the stage of mural riot that rapes New Yorkers every rush hour? No. There must be some holy altruism in Mr. Shuttleworth. Unlike other inventors, he is not giving the world what it never had before, he is restoring it to its origins. (One wonders, in fact, if there really is a Mr. Shuttleworth. His name is suspicious; it has a subway...
...with the Reagan revolution. Paring federal subsidies and waving his magic wand over the private sector, the new president called upon corporations to fill the gaps his budget cuts would leave. But stop-gap efforts to shore up eroding endowments are not the cure-all the prophets of creative altruism might suppose...
Communism figured in the theoretical schemes for a just society put forward by Plato and by Sir Thomas More. Through the centuries, communitarian systems have been tried by Benedictine monks and other small groups of individuals who have voluntarily adopted a life of discipline, self-sacrifice and altruism in order to serve God and their fellow...