Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington gossip. Last week, in a brief public ceremony at the Newport. R.I., Naval War College, President Kennedy announced that Dulles, 68, would retire in November after eight years as CIA's boss. On hand to hear the President's sincere tribute to Dulles as a "courageous, selfless" public servant was the nation's new chief of intelligence: John Alex McCone, 59, a California industrial leader and former (1958-60) chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...
...Father Edward J. Moffett worked in a suburban New York office, contributing to the Roman Catholic Foreign Mission Society's Maryknoll Magazine. Writing accounts of missionary work constantly sharpened a question in his mind: What spot on earth might most desperately need the help of a selfless missionary? As an old China hand (he spent almost a year in a Communist jail in 1950-51), Moffett knew what part of the globe to study. At length he chose the barren, wind-whipped Paeng Yong Islands, South Korea's farthest outpost in the Yellow Sea. lying a hairline south...
Given two chimpanzees (A and B), both "other directed," both infinitely fond of food scraps, and occupying neighboring cages in a public zoo. By making a fool of himself (by scratching, jumping, chattering, etc.), Chimp A wins the love and peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches of the selfless little schoolchildren who visit the zoo. Question: How do A's antics affect the behavior...
Many an American male occasionally inspects his complacent life and for a minute imagines himself given over to singleminded, selfless service among the sick and poor of the world. Young Tom Dooley did not seem to be that type. Son of a comfortably well-to-do St. Louis (steel fabricating) family, he graduated with a middling record from Notre Dame and St. Louis University's medical school, and his professors thought him destined to be a society doctor. Instead, Dooley volunteered for duty as a U.S. Navy doctor, was sent to war-torn Indo-China where he took part...
...will and strong character, Lewis Eliot, the upper-echelon bureaucrat and first-person narrator who either dominates or "I" witnesses most of the Snow novels. What Eliot gradually collects is not so much the evidence to clear Howard as the ambiguous human motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, occasionally selfless-that convict all would-be judges...