Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public-spirited, selfless, dedicated producer of worthy documentaries could hardly ask for more...
...schools the totok irascibly and well. Ives shows him selfless compassion in a colony of lepers, superstitious fear and grief in a plague-ridden village that must be dynamited hut by hut, aristocratic pride and dignity in a top-hatted native chief who tries to save his rat-ridden palace from Ives's sanitizing torches by playing billiards for it. These scenes, and the hot tropic scenery, are stubbornly convincing. Ives cannot school Hudson to believe in God, perhaps because his own version harbors more fear than love: "Out here in the jungle when a man doesn...
...thought"--"romance" and "precision," the transport of joy and the discipline of the mind. Woodworth called this juxtaposition "the paradox of discipline and freedom"; he illustrated it with a feeling he said occurred often among musicians--"only when each individual voice, each personality, each idiosyncracy is somehow lost in selfless allegiance to the music, only then come those unforgettable moments when the singers feel a sense of elation, indeed, of power and of freedom...
...horseback and of the hour, the great savior, is Molester Mole, a grubby mind with a powerful, if threadbare message. He is the Flounder of the Jack Acid Society, its spirited, selfless leader. He guides the Deacon when that Godsymp's flesh weakens, and it is Mole who prepares the Society's blacklist. The list of all the suspect members of the swamp is quite comprehensive; it even includes Mole's friend, the Deacon...
...17th century Peru. Thus, the lowly Martin de Porres, offspring of a dalliance between a Peruvian grandee and a freed Negro slave girl, could never aspire to full priestly status in the Dominican Convent of the Most Holy Rosary in Lima. He took this mortification humbly, and gave a selfless life of service to the friary and the city as a tertiary of the order. This week Pope John XXIII amended the slight and more: at a 3½-hour cere mony in St. Peter's Basilica he made Martin de Porres the church's first mulatto saint...