Word: unselfishness
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...Senator Eugene McCarthy is neither exclusively courageous nor foolhardy. Rather, in his uncompromising and unselfish honesty, he transcends these rather theatrical concepts as both an American and politician. He is the only presidential candidate who vigorously and sincerely attacks, in depth and on all fronts, the evergrowing administrative moral-political dichotomy, which so greatly alarms the nation today...
...Center, Sorokin said: "Since governments, big foundations, and better brains seem to be absorbed mainly in the promotion of wars and in the invention of increasingly destructive means for the extermination of man by man, someone, somehow, and sometime had to engage in the study of the phenomena of unselfish love, no matter how inadequate were his capabilities or how low the esteem of colleagues for his engaging in such a 'foolish enterprise...
...Meet in New York where they don't know a soul or at a Saturday night party in Huvelle's suite where the dance floor is filled with track types. They are five unassuming guys who train diligently, work for their dates, and share an unaggressive, unselfish attitude toward a sport they enjoy...
Primitive societies, in their simple wisdom, knew that sex could be propitiated only by rituals and taboos that handed on to succeeding generations the intuitive experience of the tribe. In our sophisticated world, there is only one efficacious object lesson in sex education-the authentic, God-given magic of unselfish parents who are loving and faithful to each other and to their offspring. The girl who fears motherhood does not lack accurate information so much as she lacks the reassuring experience, in her own life, of that genuine mother love "that casteth out fear." All the factual information...
...death was indeed the "End of a Pilgrimage," since it ended the road of a man possessing a deep-seated faith, an unassuming countenance, and a pilgrim's progress earned through unselfish devotion to a cause-an idealistic mission that, having bettered mankind by weekly preachings for more than 40 years, will continue to do so as long as "journalism," the word he made great, continues to exist...