Word: selfless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stolid dutifulness. He and Wayne gave it near tragic dimensions in the great They Were Expendable, a terrible obsessional quality in The Searchers. Twice (in Fort Apache and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) they endorsed the creation of elaborate lies in order to lend grandeur to this essentially selfless and military virtue...
...know the journey of their souls is not over. Wrote a 6th century Chinese master: "Although they dwell in seven jeweled palaces, and have fine objects, smells, tastes and sensations, yet they do not regard this as pleasure...[and] seek only to leave that place." Nirvana, the ultimately selfless Buddhist goal of nonbeing, is beyond paradise. Annemarie Schimmel, the great Western scholar of Islam, would agree. She wrote, "Once the journey to God is finished, the infinite journey in God begins...
...every corporate spouse is selfless--there's the cartoon figure who divides her time between the country-club tennis pro and the hairdresser. But women like Lorna are often the difference between the guy who is stuck as vice president of human resources and the president. It's hard to feel sympathy for someone asked to scrape by on a mere $10 mil, but given her superior performance, shouldn't she share the spoils of reaching the top slot...
Today, boarding schools cater to the adolescents that they are supposed to educate. The adolescent has become the consumer, and the school has become a provider, racing to keep up with teenagers' wishes. Hicks complains that more and more creature comforts, such as cable television, are destroying the former selfless asceticism of the schools. Psychological theories of development demand that adolescents be given room to express themselves, and, Hicks implies, the liberal establishment demands that such theories be adhered...
With such a multimotivated triad producing a wealth of wonders, it is no surprise that medicine's great advance has been at once high-minded and profit-minded, selfless and selfish, inspired and pragmatic, sublime and boorish. With its emphasis on technology, the juggernaut of medical science has often strained and frayed the traditional personal bond between doctor and patient. It has presented medicine with a tangle of ethical dilemmas, bringing moral implications ever closer to daily life--and death. And, if that were not enough, it confronts society and government with the urgent problem of just...