Word: compassionate
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The suffering caused by AIDS is enormous. Sufferers deserve compassion, and their disease deserves scientific inquiry. But AIDS has got far more. AIDS has become the most privileged disease in America. Why? Mainly because its victims are young, in many cases creative and famous. Their deaths are therefore particularly poignant...
Many people contracted AIDS before its causes became known, about six years ago. For them it is truly an act of God. For the rest (as the word has gone out, an ever increasing percentage), it is an act of man. They, of course, deserve our care and treatment. But...
The story, based on an actual incident, takes on deep resonances in Guare's fiction. It becomes a metaphor for liberals' fantasies of rescuing the poor. It confronts the ambivalence that the sane feel toward the mentally ill: when the con man, deftly played by James McDaniel, seems to reveal...
With scenes of home and hearth as well as policymaking, Chris Ogden, a TIME correspondent and former London bureau chief, provides an intimate portrait of a woman known for her tough exterior. Extremes of hard work and self-reliance are her sturdy British virtues; her dark side is an absence...
The cartoons that Jules Feiffer syndicates to more than 100 newspapers around the globe are world crises in miniature -- angst-ridden responses by ordinary people to headline horrors and social absurdities. His plays have the same etched wit, the same arresting blend of compassion and chilly analysis and, alas for...