Word: selfless
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Moses, a man of uncompromising morality, imposed his own standards on the delegation during the convention. But Moses, a humble and selfless man, stepped into the leadership role because the Party was floundering. He may step out as the Party gains strength...
...goes in Harlem, and so it will continue to go unless a stable and sensible leadership develops. There is justifiable fury in Harlem, but so many charlatans are scrambling to harness it to their own ends that it has become blurred and diffused. Should Harlem ever develop a selfless, home-grown leader, this much is certain: that fury will be aimed against whatever barriers of discrimination still exist, and it will take some costly resistance to keep them from falling. As a Negro patrolman on 125th Street put it, "You have to keep knocking on the door...
...ever seems to see the same Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus. Those who have been involved in diplomatic negotiations find him baffling, enigmatic, and often infuriating. The 500,000 Greek Cypriots of his island home revere him as a guileless saint, a selfless patriot, and a tenderhearted humanitarian. The 100,000 Turkish Cypriots, a minority terrified of racial extinction, view him as a bloody-handed monster and "the devil of duplicity incarnate...
...cheat a writer out of a credit line as if it were a selfless act of charity: "If I didn't have faith in you, do you think I'd put my name on your scripts?" He makes equivocation sound like grandeur: "I'm a man of great decision who can go either way." Except toward his twelve-year-old daughter, his cynicism is total, like love or war. Life and people are all frauds, he tells the nubile new secretary (Carol Rossen) who falls half in love with him, and in a world of phonies...
...Martyrs. The hero of what Hochhuth calls "a Christian tragedy" is a saintly, selfless Jesuit, Father Riccardo Fontana-a fictional character modeled on the two Catholic priests martyred by the Nazis to whom Hochhuth dedicated his play. Fontana, who comes from an aristocratic Roman family with impeccable Vatican connections, is assigned to the office of the papal nuncio in Berlin. There, in a scene derived from an actual incident of 1943, a secretly anti-Nazi storm trooper named Rudolf Gerstein breaks in to tell the nuncio that Jews are being systematically exterminated at death camps in Eastern Europe. The horrified...