Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brother and sister to be reunited, true love's partners to be mated, and the lowbrow comic shenanigans of that Tweedledum-Tweedledee pair Sir Toby Belch (Leslie Yeo) and Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Frank Maraden) to beguile the time. The entke company is rich in skill and works with selfless unity to bring out the very best in the play...
Bogdanovich's movies (like What's Up, Doc? and Paper Moon) are so smugly derivative of other, older directors that they seem virtually selfless. In his various media appearances, he comes on either as an unwired stand-up comic or an eager foil for Cybill Shepherd, his well-publicized but untalented girl friend. One has to go back to Targets, Bogdanovich's exciting first feature, to remember that he was a director of talent and promise...
...performances were presented last night during the annual football banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston. Star quarterback Milt Holt was the 26th recipient of the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award which is presented "to that Harvard player who in the opinion of his teammates possesses the initiative, perserverance, and selfless determination which were demonstrated by the late Ted Crocker." The award traditionally has the connotation of the Most Valuable Player Award...
...selfless, tireless one, the rich giver and the meek receiver, with life giving energy flowing like milk from the breast, costing her nothing, is too, too much. Looked at in the grey light of daily living the concept is the demand of the ravening child, and we cannot respond to such a claim in man or child...At my age I care to my roots about the quality of women, and I care because I know how important her quality...
Moses was also, as this book amply shows, a fabulous monster and a fascinating man who worked for the public for 44 years but, like Coriolanus, often seemed to despise the people whom he served. He was selfless and egotistical, practical and visionary, idealistic and unscrupulous. In short, the stuff of which legends are made. Moses' mind moved in bright flashes of creativity. He saw problems-and their solutions-whole...