Word: selfless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meets the Irish doctor, Joan (Pauline Collins), and he uses her as the supporting beam of his life in the village. Her selfless devotion to the cause of the diseased in the slum lures Max into the realm of the Calcuttan poor. He treats the lepers in the adjacent village, much to the horror of the paranoid denizens of his own village. The storyline takes twist after twist, placing a story within a story. The internal rivalry between the destitute lepers and the village of rickshaw-puller tenants is juxtaposed against the larger framework of animosity between the poor villagers...
Admittedly, traditional views have made women susceptible this problem of the all consuming love. I know women who act on benevolent, if not selfless, motives to devote their lives to others. Their actions don't contain the slightest hint of self distruction, but their actions have ended up killing them spiritiually, emotionally, or physically...
...Council chair David A. Aronberg '93 has appointed a public relations officer to help improve the UC's image. (In an editorial last month filled with parenthetical phrases like this, I poked a bit of fun at this idea, and at the entire council. I apologize abjectly to the selfless UC members who took offense...
While the Senate is full of selfless older women, happy to substitute the life of the office for a life, it also has a huge contingent of postfeminist younger women, who think being asked to walk the dog and clean up after the mutt is the price one pays for invaluable experience. Says an aide to a Democratic Senator on the Judiciary Committee: "You know what the code is, and if you want to be involved, you know what you have to tolerate. It's happened to me, and I never call anyone on it. You have to show...
...drum roll, please--UC public relations officer! Basically, this unfortunate soul will have to read every issue of the Salient, the Perspective, the Independent and The Crimson, then organize official council responses to any implications that the council is anything but a paragon of streamlined efficiency, financial acumen, selfless diligence and conscientious responsiveness to the popular will...