Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Best example of selfless dedication to art: Steve McQueen's decision to found an acting school so that there will be other Steve McQueens to take his place when he hangs up his spokes...
From time to time the President did exhibit odd grace notes. He expressed deeply felt concern for Hunt, whose wife Dorothy was killed in a plane crash in Chicago. He worried about "poor Bob" Haldeman, who was "totally selfless and honest and decent" but because of Watergate was "going through the tortures of the damned." There were even attempts at humor, albeit rather heavyhanded. For example, Nixon joined in the merriment on March 22, 1973, when Haldeman joked that "John says he is sorry he sent those burglars in there" and that he was glad
...Haldeman] is a guy that has just given his life, hours and hours and hours you know, totally selfless and honest and decent ... You know you get the argument of some ... you should fire them. I mean you can't do that. Or am I wrong...
...Christianity. A Latin American, for instance, looks forward to a somewhat Utopian kind of social, economic and political liberation-a Christian "revolution" that will set the world aright. Others view Christian life as a "sign of contradiction" in a pagan civilization-to see their role as an example of selfless living in a selfish world. "The council will not give us an answer to everything," says one of the young organizers. "The Gospel is a call, not an answer...
...Selfless on and off the field, Miller is reserved and dislikes controversy. He enjoys quiet evenings watching television, and is a self-proclaimed "non-party person." He doesn't like personal attention; only the attention of opponents appeals to Neal...