Word: selfless
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...contemptuous dalliances that occupy his time. He talks constantly of his freedom, but he is incapable of breaking through into the real, accepting freedom of love. His only power is to destroy whatever he can touch-the innocent troth of a country girl, his own wife's selfless devotion, his father's love, a servant's self-respect. His obsessive sexuality is chillingly sexless...
...often accused of emotional aridity, a charge which is beneath contempt. One has only to listen to Persephone, the slow movement of the Piano Concerto, Apollo, Orphcus, or the lullaby of The Rake's Progress. But every bar of his music is lyrical in the highest sense, that of selfless restraint. Chekhov, a similar artist in this and other respects, once wrote to a friend, "The more sensitive the matter in hand, the more calmly one should describe it-and the more touching it will be at last." Stravinsky has composed in the belief that feeling is deepest when least...
...Those who believe the environmental crisis relates to trees and not to people are wrong," Muskie said. Referring to the high standard of living, he said, "there's still an unwillingness to cut back on selfish exploitation for selfless conservation...
...Fields of the Lord), Matthiessen has a proven taste for mystics, especially from Latin America. As a naturalist (Wildlife in America), he has shown true indignation at the greedy exploitation of man and nature. Small wonder that in this book he begins by investing Chavez's selfless fight against the California grape growers with vast moral significance. The title means "escape if you can." And Matthiessen sees Chavez, not merely as a dedicated labor organizer but as a moral reformer and Salvationist, holding up a warning sign to a whole assembly-line culture. It reads: MAN MUST COME FIRST...
...Panthers happily hired Garry -and they have never regretted it. At Newton's trial, Garry pictured the Panther "defense minister" as a selfless leader of his people and compared his message with that of Jesus, who said: "I came not to send peace but a sword." Despite a public clamor for revenge against Newton, who was accused of murdering a policeman during a Shootout in Oakland, he was convicted on the lesser charge of manslaughter. Now Garry, 60, is the top legal defender of other Panther leaders across the nation...