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...despite the time she has spent helping others, Rosegrant shies away from images of pure and holy altruism. "I get really nervous talking about self sacrifice. Social work is probably the hardest thing I've ever done, but it was also incredibly rewarding." And she is skeptical that social work will continue to remain her primary concern in later life. Unlike PBH work, one has to hack through loads of red-tape in much social work, she says. Making changes through public policy or doing more social field study are more likely candidates for the future...
...conning his friends out of valuable baseball cards in order to complete a series of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, dreaming about biking through Europe on a Harley after graduation, fantasizing about what it's like to have a girlfriend, he gallops his way into our hearts. Although his altruism and sincerity may be occasionally overemphasized. Rocky's inveterate likeability serves the purpose of convincing us that he is no different from anyone else. Rocky comes Bogdanovich's modern-day Everyman whose adolescent trials and tribulations are magnified by an unfortunate accident of birth...
...good works--Mays and Mantle serve as paid companions to significant gamblers, whom the gaming industry prefers to call good customers. "I'm not denying that he plays golf with customers," Bally's Alan Rosenzweig says of Mays, "but he spends more time with charities and schools." Either radiating altruism or blushing from embarrassment, retired athletes as distinguished as Brooks Robinson, Johnny Unitas, Walt Frazier and Phil Esposito have danced around in crap-game commercials, like so many Sky Mastersons in a velveteen sewer, warbling...
Says Tribe, who has worked with several mental health agencies. "I felt very frustrated that I couldn't do more than give out a sandwich occasionally." "I thought I would create a mechanism to channel other people's altruism...
...ALTRUISM, on both a personal and institutional level, is not the only quality at issue here. There are different kinds of insularities that are tougher to break, as was suggested by our reaction to the Isenberg murder. Feel-good polities are only the most extreme manifestation of a professed liberalism whose roots may not be as strong as we like to think...