Word: compassionate
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, 80, used to change translators with the seasons, arguing over every article and preposition as his stories went from Yiddish to English. But recently the novelist has professed "great compassion" for the workers he once abused. "Since every language contains its own unique truths," he now believes...
Hart articulated some of what neoliberalism may be, but his was but a grab-bag of new ideas and his rhetoric lacked the compassion that neoliberals will need to convince voters they are not just warmed-over Republicans. Now, it is the task of the would-be Democratic Presidents to...
But the spectacle of human beings with bones as thin and brittle as dead twigs produced controversy as well as compassion. The Rev. Charles Elliott, a British relief official who until last month was the director of Christian Aid, claimed that the U.S. and Britain had withheld assistance with the...
But Kerry's views, while strongly liberal, are hardly radical. Though he has spurned ideological labels, he has recently been calling himself a "neoliberal," the new buzzword floating around to describe that strange association of Democrats favoring a new "realism" to go along with their traditional compassion. For Kerry this...
REAGAN'S LEAD in the polls in large, perhaps insurmountable, and in that respect Mondale's performance may have been to no avail. But, to paraphrase his own words, it is better to lose a campaign based on the issues of compassion and fairness rather than win one by appealing...