Word: compassionate
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While Bedelia, as Shirley, gives an admirable performance, the lines do not give her a chance to express the complete range of her character. She is stifled by Friedman's stiff unemotional dialogue. Unlike Rocky, with whom the audience seemed to sweat and also cheer. Shirley is a cold, almost...
To call Freud sexist is nothing new, but this book is striking in its account of Eckstein's bungled treatment at the hands of Freud and Fliess. The illfated operation can be excused as potentially well-meaning, but the two men's attitudes toward her in the aftermath of the...
Dvor (The Courtyard) by Arkadi Lvov, 56, has thus far failed to interest American publishers because of its monumental proportions. Still, the two-volume, 800-page novel has already survived a major hazard of emigration. The author managed to smuggle the microfilmed manuscript out of the Soviet Union by concealing...
Hart talks about "restoring compassion to our government...[and] providing new help to the people who most need the assistance of this nation...." Why not set a minimum level of income for all Americans and couple it with the so-called negative income tax? This tax would guarantee a minimum...
Obviously the federal government and T.W.A. are a little too large to be run like family businesses, but it would be good for both the public and its employees if they could be run with some compassion. It is their institutional intractability which makes them so frustrating, especially on a...