Word: selfless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alone, in an acting empyrean, in George Cukor's 1937 Camille. As the selfless courtesan Marguerite Gautier, Garbo transforms her face into a life- and-death mask, and Dumas's melodrama into classical tragedy. Every calculated audacity -- the hint of disintegration in the eyes, the dry little laugh exploding into a tubercular cough, the weight of a thoughtful passion that gives substance to every line of dialogue -- testifies to Garbo's acute, intuitive knowledge of screen acting, and it allows her to play Marguerite at high pitch and with perfect precision. At the end, as she dies reconciled with...
Metcalfe frequently contrasts the selfless and courteous nature of Megs to the chauvinistic and abusive nature of Dave. He does not forget to also compare and contrast Dave and Megs. Meg helps Martha with dishes; Dave strews his empty beer cans around the house...
...outside observer might think that Harvard law students were selfless idealists, rightfully infuriated over Dean Robert C. Clark's apparent lack of commitment to their future career path. Those caring law students seem to be willing to do anything to help the millions of Americans who cannot afford representation...
...truth, motives for having babies are never selfless. Children are called to life by adult desires: to experience parenthood, to have an heir, to ensure that a youngster is not an only child. "In a sense we all have children to use them," says bioethicist Michael Shapiro of the University of Southern California. And motives can be mixed. Mary Ayala has long wanted a third child. Abe points out that "if Anissa didn't survive, we'd have another child in the house to help us with our sense of loss." Human needs are so tangled that no one expects...
...children predicted that imminent changes in Russia would lead to the spread of totalitarian, atheist, antihuman regimes throughout the world. To stave off this spread, the children warned, the people of the world must undergo an inner conversion and commit themselves to the selfless act of praying for others...