Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to give you a call and remind you of this, then I'm going to make another call and you'll be out of a job." Says Hammond: "Appel is as offensive as any man I've ever met, but he's utterly selfless in his devotion to Bruce." Appel and Springsteen understood each other. They agreed that Bruce and the band should play second fiddle to nobody. After a quick but disastrous experience as an opening act for Chicago, Springsteen appeared only as a headline attraction. That meant fewer bookings. There was also little...
...exceed Maronite Christians (1.2 million), who still wield majority power. This rigid confessional formula has become a straitjacket, institutionalizing communal dissension rather than easing it. Yet despite the continuing bloodshed and the threat of anarchy, politicians in the bitterly divided nation have largely proved neither powerful, courageous nor selfless enough to agree on a practical alternative...
...Plato's time." Some argue that today's homosexuals, if not noble, are often truly loving. The British Society of Friends in its book Toward a Quaker View on Sex maintains that "it is the nature and quality of a relationship which matters. Homosexual affection can be as selfless as heterosexual affection and therefore we cannot see that it is in some way morally worse...
While most scholars manage to resist the notion that Paul might have applauded selfless homosexual relationships, it seems that neither the Old Testament writers nor Paul had any conception that homosexuality might be a permanent psychic condition in an individual. The Dutch Catechism, a product of liberal Roman Catholicism with the imprimatur of Holland's Primate, says that "the very sharp strictures of Scripture must be read in their context" as a denunciation of a fashion that was spreading to many who were "quite capable of normal sexual sentiments." The catechism suggests that a homosexual not capable of "normal" sexual...
...story on the beer industry (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). A beer connoisseur since college days, Mohs has savored on his travels such exotic brews as Red China's official Tsingtao and a Thai beer called Singhe, which is reputedly one of the world's most potent. Mohs' selfless research continued during a recent weekend trip to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There he sampled several Northeastern small-brewery beers, savoring each bouquet as if it were a Château Mouton-Rothschild. Unfortunately, as his story relates, many of these regional beers could soon disappear. "And that...