Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oldest college's daily has not changed much in 81 years. CRIMSON newswriters are still dedicated above all else to the deathless beauty of their own prose. Fearless and mindless, they willingly sacrifice the advantages of formal education to that nobler end of gathering and repeating hearsay...
...galore. Many of the underdeveloped nations of Asia, and colonial peoples everywhere, listened admiringly to Mao's boastful plans of a swift transition from poverty to plenty. The left wing in Western Europe and the U.S., disenchanted with Stalin's terror, saw Mao as a new and nobler architect of a peoples' socialism. In the United Nations, it seemed only a matter of time before rambunctious Afro-Asian votes overcame U.S. resistance to the idea of taking China's seat away from the Nationalists on Formosa and giving it to the Communist regime...
...medieval romances, knights grow nobler from suffering. The Cloven Viscount, Medardo of Terralba, grows worse. He is cut cleanly in two from head to crotch by a Turkish cannon ball, and one half of him is saved by doctors. This half returns home with a maniacal urge to slice everything else in two: flowers, mushrooms, small animals. "If only I could halve every whole thing like this," the viscount philosophizes, "so that everyone would escape from his obtuse and ignorant wholeness. Beauty and knowledge and justice only exists in what has been cut to shreds...
...more than a Zane Grey to Germany, and more a popular moralist than a popular novelist. May became an authority on the wild West without straying from Dresden (where he kept his Villa Shatterhand littered with frontier souvenirs), and May's West was even nobler than the Lone Ranger's. Old Shatterhand (a German immigrant cowboy) brought Teutonic virtue to the plains, shunning six-shooters in favor of his sledgelike fists...
bluntly lectured a Washington conclave of U.S. broadcasters on the consequences of exporting nothing but "the ideals of Tombstone and Deadman's Gulch." Said Greene: "History has known few nobler or more selfless actions than the generosity which America has shown to other nations during the last 20 years...