Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Standing on one side of the controversy are the so-called "Reds," who espouse Chairman Mao Tse-tung's idea of continual revolution and selfless commitment to "serve the people," John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday. Mao believes the revolution is betrayed by bureaucrats who obtain privileges and turn elitist, Fairbank added...
...cornerstone for the project in 1951 but all deliberate speed continued to prevail. The building was not actually begun until 1969. However, in 1963, Laurence Olivier was officially appointed head of the National, with the company performing at the Old Vic. Without his towering prestige and his selfless devotion of ten years of his time, it is doubtful whether the idea would have ever become a reality...
Filled with revolutionary enthusiasm, they have given themselves over to a selfless labor so that they can carry out the directives of the party and the government...Immersed in their activities, they have forgotten what it is to eat or sleep...Sixteen or eighteen-hour work days are now common. Machines don't need to rest. All they need is to be manned...
...instance, if men are supposed (by nature) to compete with each other with the best man winning out, as an individualistic natural selection model dictates, then both Spencer and Wilson must find ways to explain why some humans are inclined to altruistic acts that appear to be entirely selfless. Wilson and Spencer provide elaborate scientific justifications for these acts of human kindness. Spencer launches into a lengthy passage in "The Date of Ethics" showing, through a network of cost benefits, how an individual betters his fitness by aiding his offspring. Wilson's tactics are similar. He shows that the altruist...
...Dorothy Day, the snow-haired philosopher-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and still its indefatigable voice. She has been jailed eight times-most recently as an illegal picketer for Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers in 1973. (Many regard Chavez himself as a saint for his selfless, intensely spiritual devotion to his cause.) A Marxist in the '20s, she bore a daughter to her common-law husband, but became a celibate after converting to Catholicism. "The best thing to do with the best things in life," she says, "is to give them...