Word: compassionate
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Faces of the martyrs, each leaning against the other as in old ikons, sorrow slanting their eyes as centuries before. And yet one could tell that a few hours earlier, before the dark set in their eyes, there was compassion in their eyes; before the dark filled their mouths there...
One can never know the reasons for a suicide--or understand the complex maze of fears and emotions that go into the act. But the deaths of Ru Selle Harwood and John Neumann must memorably raise anew the question of loneliness at Harvard-Radcliffe in the daily rush of exempts...
If John Neumann and Ru Selle Diana Harwood have left any legacy--and I believe they have left a very rich one--it is to keep our hearts and minds forever fixed on what is most important in this too often dark and turbulent world--qualities of compassion, the meaningful...
Brownmiller correctly points out that "the singlemindedness with which a man may pursue his non-reproductive goals is foreign not only to the female procreational ability, it is alien to the feminine values and emotional traits that women are expected to show." But implicit in this statement is the value...
The article entitled "The Responsibility of the Physician Towards the Hopelessly III," was written by doctors from all over the country. It addresses specifically the issue of the terminal patient's right to dictate his course of treatment, and it comes up with some rather startling recommendations. It is acceptable...