Word: compassioner
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Rimmed World. Though it can be placed well enough among turn-of-the-century verismo works, Jenufa is an elusive opera in some ways. The setting is a Moravian village, and the composer knew its inhabitants with detachment and compassion. He creates no heroes, but a world of people working...
That is what is so exuberantly evident on the boards of the Mark Taper. Tragedy or not, the players are celebrating the joy of acting. Tragedy or not, what is O'Casey celebrating? A trinity of profound, if currently unfashionable values-God, country and family. Not for a single...
Inevitably, the bishops had to face the problem of religion's appeal to the young. The church itself, several prelates conceded, turned off many youths. "The young person is looking for a model of Christ and the Gospel in the ministers," said Archbishop John Quinn of Oklahoma City. "In...
Squatriglia might be an object of compassion. But he is significantly marred by the loss of his right eye, which is covered over with a bizarre skin graft. His blindness to the fact of role-playing is similarly a source of grotesque pity, certainly nothing with which we can identify...
But in Chee-Chee, the word is bound, and denies the action. Only Nada feels what she says; and she is done in by a little knowledge. She sees Squatriglia's feeble but well-meant ploy, but not the larger deception that frames it. And Pirandello deprives us of the...