Word: selflessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present. But we should extend them the courtesy of acknowledging how reasonable these claims seem when compared to their nonsensical view of the past. If it appears, as Nixon had the gall to assert in January, that our involvement in the war was "one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations," it is because Hanoi and the PRG have kept the U.S. from stablizing an illegitimate rightist regime in the South. America has gained nothing, while the PRG has gained official recognition as a legitimate administration with a right to maintain armed forces on its territory...
...said, had "the full support" of Thieu, and he pledged that the U.S. still recognized Thieu's regime as "the sole legitimate government of South Viet Nam." He praised the 2,500,000 Americans who had fought in the war for taking part "in one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations...
Americans must not be lulled into self-congratulation by the President's assertions that American involvement in Vietnam has been "one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations:" our part in the ravagement of Indochina and the sacrifice of Asian and American lives can never be explained away by our willing support of a string of corrupt regimes. Now that the fighting is about to stop, we must urge Congress to turn off the military pipeline to Thieu, to insist on the release of political prisoners, and to prevent further American intervention in the political future...
Overlaying the natural tragedy were varying degrees of human confusion, venality and selfless generosity. Hoping to force out the 150,000 or so who stubbornly refused to leave Managua, and thus reduce the chances of an outbreak of disease, the government at first refused to bring food into the city. As a result, emergency food supplies flown in by various relief organizations piled up in hangars at Managua's Las Mercedes Airport while profiteers within the city sold bread at $2 a loaf and water and soft drinks at $2 a bottle (the water in Lake Managua...
...resuscitate the dead art/ of poetry; to maintain the sublime/ In the old sense." After the rhetoric and moral posturing of the Victorians, he declared early for a different approach -harder, saner, nearer the bone, Pound said, "austere, direct, free from emotional slither." Then as gadfly, teacher, prosodist and selfless promoter of gifted contemporaries (Eliot, Yeats, Frost), he encouraged the spare, sensuous verse, the ironic double vision that has helped modern poets consider and refine the challenges and confusions of a new and terrifying century...