Word: compassionate
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When she photographed a Jewish giant at home with his parents or a Christmas tree in Levittown in fullest bleak regalia, Arbus was situated between complicity and awe, a place where irony is beside the point and mere compassion has been left behind for something like mordant communion. It all...
Around 1962, Arbus switched from a 35-mm camera to a twin-lens Rolleiflex that produced the weighty figures in a square format that became her trademark. It gave her pimply drag queens the mighty tonnage of Rodin's Balzac. Our predispositions still place pressure upon the images in the...
“Power unmasks what was underneath all along,” Caro says. “Johnson had compassion for the downtrodden and the passion to raise them up.” His achievement of that goal represented an apex in his career.
Proceeding from the idea that “power reveals,” Caro argued that “once he had acquired power in the Senate, [Johnson’s] compassion shines forth.”
I’m sure that Rush isn’t entirely bereft of any sense of compassion, though when he prints “I don’t have compassion for the poor,” and claims he’s “redefining greatness?...