Word: compassioner
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Berrigan: Yes. And I think marriage as we understand it and family life as we understand it in this culture both tend to define people in a far more suffocating and totalizing way than we want to acknowledge. There is a very nearly universal supposition that after one marries one...
Coles: Married men to a degree lose their social compassion?
Loyalty to one's own sex being, of course, not only natural, but even laudable, it's certainly not to be criticized either in Mailer or in the New York Radical Women. But as loyalty degenerates into chauvinism, it begins to intrude on compassion for the opposite sex. Thus, when...
Charging that Millett disrupts the chronology of Lawrence's work to prove that he is a "counterrevolutionary sexual politician," Mailer restores the chronology, plus several passages Millett has lacerated with ellipses and paraphrase. Then, he brings to the analysis such delicacy and compassion for Lawrence that the section often moves...
When From Here to Eternity was published, Jones became the wealthiest novelist of his generation, and one of the most acclaimed. As a matter of American business course, he began to run for Mailer's cultural presidency. The search for the drama of willful men, the sensitivity to dialogue and...