Word: compassioner
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Striving mightily to build the Great Society, Califano helped detonate this compassion explosion; his office churned out some 150 bills a year, and Congress passed about 100. "I can't remember them
He can be abrasive and bumptious, often irritating Capitol Hill Pooh-Bahs, and some White House aides, whose help he needs most. Yet a smile usually plays at the edges of his mouth, and his deep laughter is disarming. If he lacks compassion for his overworked aides, cursing their failures...
Tennessee Williams was lionized this past week at the second annual Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C., but there was more to it than celebrity worship. Williams was on the receiving end of a wave length of personal affection that surely extends far beyond Charleston. It is not difficult to...
Cheever's novels and short stories, while statements of traditional morality, explore universal themes within the setting of latter-day America. A master of satire, Cheever most often studies the effects of modern pressures on the contemporary morality of the suburban middle-class, yet he never loses a sense of...
I realize I should be grateful to the members of the Corporation for all the soul-searching and agonizing moral battles they so kindly tell us they have undergone, but some parts of their statement strain the limits of my credulousness. For example, they tell us that the best way...