Word: nobler
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...greater number of "unborn babies." But the vast majority of the American population (and, arguably, the U.S. Congress) does not accept the radical equation of fetus and baby. Even George Bush agreed with other world leaders at the recent World Summit for Children that "there can be no task nobler than giving every child a better future...
Every time the U.S. has fought a major war in this century, its goals have included the defense of a principle larger and nobler than its own self- interest. "What we demand," said Woodrow Wilson in 1918, "is that the world be made fit and safe to live in." Safety meant the protection of all nations, not just the U.S., "against force and selfish aggression...
...authors, veteran political observers all, agree that Bush won because he and his handlers more ably manipulated the symbols of patriotism and the emotions of voters than did their Democratic rivals. Bush pretended to be someone other than himself and won; Dukakis refused to pretend and lost. Which is nobler? All three authors ponder this, but Paul Taylor does it most eloquently: "Faced with a choice between the illusion of Bush and the unvarnished reality of Dukakis, ((the voters)) knew what they wanted. How odd: a process designed to unmask the candidates wound up electing a masked...
...HAVE we only learned hypocrisy? Is turning down The Club a weak attempt to stay "a little nobler, a little cleaner" than the rest of alumni, when we shamelessly accept the rest of the inherent benefits of a Harvard education...
...What, when drunk, one sees in other women," Kenneth Tynan wrote, "one sees in Garbo sober." But it wasn't the beauty alone that intoxicated. Garbo used her severe gorgeousness to suggest that the characters she played were creatures from a nobler, alien world, doomed to exile among the puny men and cramped conventions of earth. She was typecast as the siren who lures men to hell, only to get there first; but her pained dignity gave the lie to cliche. This Garbo lived by a standard too high for men to reach, so they grabbed what they could touch...