Word: compassioner
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In Pirandello's great plays, we are forced, with his characters, to view role-playing with compassion: "The harder the struggle for life and the more one's weakness is felt, the greater becomes the need for mutual deception." Pirandello had been aware of this long before Chee-Chee--he...
Several gifts seemed wholly innocent acts of compassion, such as covering medical expenses or easing the financial problems of retiring aides. At least one gift came perilously close to violating New York State's conflict-of-interest laws, however, and others raised questions of propriety. Hugh Morrow, Rockefeller'...
The cast is exemplary. To cite one player would be to slight another. No one in contemporary theater orchestrates mordant laughter with a surer hand than Playwright Peter Nichols. His forked tongue darts at everything, but his compassion is deep and pure.
It is at such times that I would like to label the anguishing defeat a historic contest and have done with partisan furor forever. But a conversion to such intellectual detachment would mean the adoption of other, more alien, sensibilities. Judging from the nature of disinterested baseball lovers at Harvard...
No Commitment. During his testimony, Rockefeller found himself asked to judge the actions of both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He declared that Nixon's acceptance of his pardon was "tantamount to admitting guilt." While he called the pardon "an act of conscience, compassion and courage," Rockefeller said that...