Word: compassioner
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Presidential boomlets bubbled all across this vast landscape: "Can Percy make it? ... Is Connally finished, I hope, and Teddy Kennedy too? ... Does Rockefeller have any chance?" We need someone better, they often said. Who has the special intelligence and compassion and energy to rise above all the others?
Stone's sense of justice is internationalist. Though proudly Jewish and hopeful for Israel, Stone wrote in 1956, "The Arab refugees weigh upon my conscience, and I believe it the moral duty of Jews everywhere to contribute when peace is made towards their resettlement." In 1970, still deploring Israel's...
The ultimate criticism of Last Rights is that it does not do justice to the complexity of death. The author's problem-solving approach deserves credit for compassion, but in its obsession with reducing the pain, it almost succeeds in making death banal.
MEAN STREETS. Martin Scorsese's kinetic memoir of growing up in New York's Little Italy. A movie with perspective, compassion, some good actors (Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel) and a lot of street smarts.
Silliest Goose. Made to order for the Osgood touch was a story about U.S. Ambassador to India Kenneth Keating, who liked to feed the waterfowl on an embassy pond. When he left the New Delhi post last summer, Keating's staff put up a bronze plaque commemorating his acts...