Word: selflessly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...world, that innumerable Utopian schemes have failed, that maintenance of a balance of power is critical to improving the chances for peace, that wars have been a major part of our history since recorded times, and that possibly, just possibly, the human being is not as noble and as selfless as our hand-wringing liberals have apparently assumed, I will tend to place more faith in those who have managed to survive longer in this reality of ours, all other things being equal. ROBERT A. MARTIN Culver City, Calif...
...Lucas, 56, renowned war correspondent for Scripps-Howard newspapers; of abdominal cancer; in Washington, D.C. Why always a war? someone once asked Lucas, and he replied: "It is one of the few circumstances in life I have found where the majority of people I deal with are selfless." Untiringly he accompanied servicemen through eight World War II Pacific landings, 26 months in Korea, 18 months with the French in Indochina, and then Viet Nam. Though he was known for his terse, highly personal accounts, his most memorable piece was a 1954 off-the-record interview with Douglas MacArthur, printed...
...trend which would be accelerated by a drop in the birth rate. As to vigor, when the breakthrough comes in aging research, people in their 70s and 80s should have the energy of those in their 50s and 60s today. Ideally this would produce a greater number of selfless, highly educated wisemen who could undertake complex new projects for the benefit of mankind. But few believe that it would work this way. Most observers suggest that increased longevity would only magnify today's ambiguities and uncertainties if defining the role of the elderly...
...contemptuous dalliances that occupy his time. He talks constantly of his freedom, but he is incapable of breaking through into the real, accepting freedom of love. His only power is to destroy whatever he can touch-the innocent troth of a country girl, his own wife's selfless devotion, his father's love, a servant's self-respect. His obsessive sexuality is chillingly sexless...
...often accused of emotional aridity, a charge which is beneath contempt. One has only to listen to Persephone, the slow movement of the Piano Concerto, Apollo, Orphcus, or the lullaby of The Rake's Progress. But every bar of his music is lyrical in the highest sense, that of selfless restraint. Chekhov, a similar artist in this and other respects, once wrote to a friend, "The more sensitive the matter in hand, the more calmly one should describe it-and the more touching it will be at last." Stravinsky has composed in the belief that feeling is deepest when least...