Word: compassioner
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It is as uncertain an affirmation as Malamud has ever written. In past stories and novels such as The Assistant, A New Life, The Fixer, suffering usually stretched a character's awareness of life's tragic limitations. In The Tenant, men hack blindly at each other's...
Even though he was a three-time loser, Jackson went to prison for a minor criminal offense that scarcely warranted an eleven-year sentence. Did the parole examiners who prolonged his term turn him into a political prisoner? Jackson filled his long stretch-more than seven years of it in...
Author Faust has always been a fast man with an Apocalypse. But here he is so fast and gratuitous that it seems as if he had loosed havoc upon his creations in order to cover up the compassion and sentiment that went into their making. On a purely technical level...
If The Last and the First departs from the author's past works, it is in its relative compassion. Not that Dame Ivy went soft. But she endowed Hermia, a powerful woman, with both a healthy outlook and a promising future. In a way, like Eliza, she was surrendering...
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (81). To see a splendid revival of the finest play ever written by a U.S. dramatist ought to be a sufficient lure, in and of itself. O'Neill painted an enduring portrait of his own tragic family history, using the primary colors...