Word: compassioner
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"Squeamishness about taking creatures apart ... is a measure of the extent to which parents and society try to isolate themselves and their children from life." As for vegetarians, they are the victims of "a fantasy of compassion."
This classic plot does not sound funny and much of it is not, but a good deal of it is. Chekhov's compassion for his characters' bruised hearts never blurred the amused clinical eye he focuses on their petty, self-deluding foibles. Chekhov frowned on directors who made...
The son of an Army medical officer, Ashburn was educated at Groton and Yale. He founded Brooks to produce "cultured citizens," which to him means inculcating compassion as well as taste. "When a boy comes here," he says, "I think he's joining a new family and treat him...
"I am hopeful you [the students] can better the situation. You have an obligation to reverse the direction of society. You must offer compassion where compassion is really needed," he said.
"This Administration has no compassion for the bombing victims in Cambodia. It has no compassion for the poor or the unemployed. And now they ask us for compassion," Lowenstein said.