Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diary that established him as the Confucius of collectivism. By contrast with the vast majority of China's peasants, whose reluctance to be herded into agricultural communes in 1958 has been largely responsible for the nation's persistent food shortages, Lei Feng actually waxed lyrical over such selfless, soulless "service to the people." Said he: "One's role in the revolutionary cause is just like a screw in the machine. A man has his greatest strength only when he is merged with the collective...
...Award is in no way related to debating skill. It is presented to a member of the junior class who by his selfless character and service to Harvard Debate exemplifies these characteristics of William C. Boyden '57. Malcolm H. Wiener...
...education must remain a privilege in that no graduate can forget the public responsibilities which accompany whatever personal growth her education may bring her." Smith women do not forget. They strive to be suburban community leaders, clubwomen, PTA heads. But their social concern is not only directed along such selfless lines: the Smith woman is famous for being a good wife for an organization man. There is a story, often repeated in this regard, of the rising young IBM executive who was engaged to a senior at Vassar. His superiors made it known to him that while Vassar was certainly...
Author Heinz's obvious intention is to present a picture of selfless and dedicated surgeons. What unfortunately emerges is a group of professionals neurotically obsessed by real and imagined enemies. The patients are bad enough, since they alternate between expecting miracles and expressing astonishment at the size of their bills. It is even worse when a patient has a lawyer in the family. "The shysters have us on the defensive," grumbles Dr. Carter, "and the shame of it all is that you have to order a lot of unnecessary tests." Author Heinz's prescription for the ideal patient...
...realistic defenders in the Administration itself. Somebody will have to beat the idea into the woolly heads of the House subcommittee that most of the waste in economic aid comes from treating the program as an arm of highly limited notions of national security. It is not selfless humanitarianism, but a myopic desire to be brisk, that sends dollars to chase a crisis in Indonesia even when there is no reason to suppose that the Indonesians will use them properly. And yet it is only crisis assistance that Administration and Congress can always agree to accept. The money expended...