Word: compassioner
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The other influential woman in Carter's life is his mother, "MISS LILLIAN" (pronounced Lee-yun), a redoubtable personality who would have fascinated William Faulkner and Bertolt Brecht. Says she: "Everything I started, I finished. Jimmy got that from me." Indeed, she bequeathed him his pearly teeth, his smile...
Stern obviously has immense compassion for the people he represented. But it is only when he begins to detail his compassion that the book drags. He talks about his sympathy for the underdog, even to the point of writing that as a child, "I never liked the Yankees because they...
As I studied the face of Jimmy Carter on the cover, these words suggested themselves: seriousness, humility, gentleness, thoughtfulness, warmth, trustworthiness, strength, compassion, concern.
≫ Congressman Charles Vanik of Ohio admitted retaining a former prostitute on his district-office payroll, even after she had become ill and unable to work. But he insisted he did so out of compassion. Vanik also denied knowledge of her past.
He had something to offer for conservatives and liberals alike. Conservative audiences liked to hear him say that there are 1.1 million welfare recipients who are able to work and ought to be trained for and offered a job. "If they refuse it," he added, "they ought to be taken...