Word: selfless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Salman Rushdie was a shameful choice to chronicle Gandhi's life. Rushdie has lived outside India for most of his life. He should not be the one writing about a brave, inspiring and selfless leader. Sure, Gandhi is not short of critics, but he stood firm against the greatest power of the time and saw the realization of a free and self-ruled India. RAJESH L. MAHTANI Hong Kong
...took a bribe from Billy Zane, shot a steerage passenger to stop him from boarding the lifeboats, and ended his life ingraciously with a gun at his head. Which didn't go down too well in Dalbeattie, Scotland, where the real-life officer Murdoch is remembered as a selfless hero who saved lives and went down with his ship...
...Cheer for Apathy" Tom Cotton assured us that it was not so much a belief of ineffectuality that renders students apathetic but a devotion to the experience of a liberal education and the selfless pursuit of medical school admission or a Wall Street position that leads students to "prudently choose their education over activism." The notion that a secluded liberal education is valuable, or even possible, stuns us. The proposal that one is best educated by avoiding ideology, activism, and community activity is patently ridiculous. It is a presumptuous fallacy to suggest that "education" is only attainable in wood-paneled...
...Harvard," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message, "we try to create an environment where students can be as selfless as possible...[B]y comparison with the world outside and beyond Harvard, where people get on career tracks, want to do well in order to protect and provide for their loved ones, become geographically immobilized, etc., I think college--this one anyway--provides a rare moment, when most students are at a critical stage of their development, to open up rather than closing down and drawing in on themselves...
...McCaughey seven, the au pair trial and, most amazingly, Diana. The public reaction to the septuplets might have been the same in any era; there is always something enchanting and heartwarming about human beings' doing something odd, like producing a litter. Likewise, the loss of so demonstrably selfless a person as Mother Teresa might effect a mass response in any year...