Word: compassionate
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For Stevens and many of her fellow students, religion is not a contemplative but an active force in implementing social change, both through religious institutions and outside them. They are aware that many religious institutions must change to meet these needs. Their viewpoint is politicized, but their commitment is moral...
Steven Mosher may not be regarded by the educational community as blameless, but perhaps humanity outweighs academic etiquette. We hardly have a free scholarly environment when a man of Mosher's integrity and compassion must bury his knowledge in obscure periodicals for fear of unleashing public outrage.
THOSE OF US who try to maintain faith in human compassion and morality in a crazy and unstable world sometimes face challenges that are hard to counter. Every so often something jars us, something shakes up our sensibilities and makes us question whether this world of ours is all right...
SOUTH AFRICAN dramatists and writers alike must continually resist the considerable temptation to overuse apartheid themes in their work. In artistic terms, after all, it's a safe bet. The writer knows very well where he stands, what his task is--he can count on the audience to react predictably...
So much for the world's bigots and half-pints, whose hash has been temporarily settled by the quirkiest, most implacable satiric sensibility in American pop. They may join the ragtag list of victims, victimizers, unanointed antiheroes and assorted foul balls about whom Newman has sung with stinging wit...