Word: compassioner
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Where Company--whose award-winning book was also written by Mr. Furth--dissected a series of Manhatten marriages with the coolness of stainless steel. Twigs looks at a corresponding sampling of suburban couples with the compassion of a family retainer. As the program counsels, "The play takes place in a...
Yet just as this experience had "engendered in me a flame that will live, live to grow, until it either destroys my tormentor or myself," it also nurtured compassion and empathy:
Vogel himself exhibits no memory in the usual sense. He seems to be an uneasy collection of disparate traits acquired from the men who have been most central in his life. He seems, indeed, to crave other people's personalities in much the way the Pedersens craved morphine, whisky...
Michael Butler, that "Medici of the counter-culture" who hully-gullied all the way to the Chase Manhattan after his production of Hair, may have taken on some real risks in deciding to produce The Trial of the Catonsville Nine in Cambridge. Berrigan's play has a certain amount of...
The Tenant is not really a novel (or parable), but a bleak, relentless vision. It is full of that blend of realism and fantasy, comedy and pathos that distinguishes Malamud as one of America's best writers. That it does not end with a warm rush of saving compassion...