Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author West's innate good taste, these characters might be merely sordid and sensational; he keeps them in the perspective of human frailty and suffering. As Meredith probes on, the proofs of Nerone's possible sainthood mount-his conversion and surrender to God, his healing miracles, his selfless care of the villagers, his martyrdom at the hands of the Communists. But Blaise Meredith, brimming with a new-found humanity, cares less and less about the dead saint, trembles instead for the living sinners...
...shadow and hence to bear children. In search of a shadow, she persuades a dyer's wife to surrender her own, and thus renounce her power to bear children, for luxuries and an imaginary romance. In a mirage of symbolism about human and superhuman love, selfish and selfless love, the dyer's wife eventually realizes that she loves her husband, and the empress sees that she herself cannot buy love in exchange for another's misery. Moving between the human and the spirit world, the opera blazes with magic effects: a sword swinging from nowhere, fish conjured...
...have attracted so much high-powered devotion? Wiry, long-faced Manie (pronounced Manny) was a longtime recording executive for Columbia Records, later a vice president of both NBC and RCA, and he died last year of leukemia at 56. Says RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "He was the most selfless man I ever knew." Frank Sinatra credits him with "a closetful of right arms." Adds Variety Editor Abel Green in a bathetic burst: "His was the unashamed opening of the pores of human kindness...
...Last year, when he conducted the Bach Society Orchestra, Senturia did a fine job," commented Ward. "He is a superb musician and he acted in a selfless way, interested in the orchestra rather than in himself as conductor...
...Japanese began dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. Dodging flak showers, Civilian Northrup dashed to the burning Navy Yard, helped put out submarine-detection devices from a patrol boat in pitching seas. In 1948, when Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss persuaded the Administration to establish an atomic-detection unit, selfless Scientist Northrup was borrowed by the Air Force, named technical director of something called AFOAT-1, a special project of the Air Force Office of Atomic Energy so secret that his bosses refused to say they knew...