Word: compassioner
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Non-assertiveness takes a variety of forms. Judith Jones, a graduate of a Manhattan course, points out: "I was the kind of person who was grateful for every promotion I got, when actually, goddammit, I had earned them." Stanlee Phelps, a psychiatric social worker who helps to teach courses at...
A largely Democratic majority of House members, however, was reluctant to set an unnecessary precedent that might extend presidential warmaking powers; the bill was defeated by a vote of 246 to 162. Ford was outraged and declared that the vote reflected "fear and misunderstanding, rather than charity and compassion." He...
Salt's adaptation follows West's novel closely in most of the plot details. It misses what is most crucial: West's tone of level rage and tilted compassion, his ability to make human even the most grotesque mockery. The novel, a series of interrelated sketches, does...
Harvard, on the other hand, will not be treating its rather pathetic competition with much compassion, as Higginson's varsity is still recovering from its man-overboard loss to Navy last weekend.
"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed," Thomas Jefferson wrote. Our commitments must be to action, and we cannot expect it to be easy action. It will take all our energy, all our compassion, all our strength. We will need determination and...