Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other time, the election of Antonio Segni as Italy's third President could evoke only enthusiasm; a dignified and selfless career has made the Christian Democrat one of Italy's most respected politicians. Many Italians, antagonized by Giovanni Gronchi's partisan use of the theoretically non-political office, look to Segni to restore dignity to the Presidency...
bluntly lectured a Washington conclave of U.S. broadcasters on the consequences of exporting nothing but "the ideals of Tombstone and Deadman's Gulch." Said Greene: "History has known few nobler or more selfless actions than the generosity which America has shown to other nations during the last 20 years...
...Neal seems agonizingly nailed to a cross of nerves. Nonno (Alan Webb), a 97-year-old poet, is the prisoner of art and age, struggling between memory lapses to finish a new poem. Hannah Jelkes (Margaret Leighton), Nonno's spinster granddaughter, has invested her emotional life in selfless care of the old man. Leighton's acting has the purity of light...
...closest approximations of a free election in ail of Haiti's dictator ridden history, François Duvalier won the presidency in 1957 on his record as a selfless country doctor fighting disease among his country's poverty-stricken peasants. But after four years, Haiti's 3,750,000 Negroes are still no better off (annual per capita income: less than $100), and the Duvalier regime has turned into the traditional model of a dictatorship, gobbling up graft and relying on strongman methods to keep itself in power. All the while, Duvalier, who in the past four...
Brecht on Brecht is an arresting two hours with the late great German playwright, a sort of literary and dramatic revue composed of selections from his poems, letters, songs, plays and aphorisms, acted out with selfless intensity...