Word: compassioner
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In his U.P.I, speech last week, McGovern continued to insist that "I handled the matter of Senator Eagleton's candidacy with compassion and with genuine concern for the best interests of the nation. The nation can ill afford to debate this issue while death stalks the face of Indochina...
Toward the movie's end. Marjoe explains that he looks at his actions as "bad, not evil." There may be more than a semantic nicety to that. But it is unsubstantiated by Marjoe's attitude. He is using this film as a springboard toward an acting and singing career, and...
(5 of 10) achievement, with toughness and endurance, assumes finally that almost every American has had the same open field before him as he has had. Classic competitive liberalism too often leaves little room for compassion. His best friends are self-made millionaires. His inner sense of America harbors no...
Privacy. Nixon calls them "the old values"?parental authority, a stand against permissiveness, law-and-order before civil rights. In the process he has presided over increasing surveillance and broader arrest patterns. Despite his praise for traditional values, the question of privacy has been submerged in the fight against...
If in Nixon's America the language tends to be angular and mechanical, to speak of systems and order, in McGovern's nation it is a more humanistic vocabulary of "decency," "compassion" and "integrity." The idea of "a restoration of faith in government" recurs, a vaguely spiritual impulse focusing on...