Word: compassioner
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Perceptive Ambience. Mutation is the master metaphor with which Playwright Paul Zindel links the worlds of botany and humanity. Some of the marigolds are withered, some aberrant, and some blossom handsomely. So it is in the family. It is difficult to know where praise of Marigolds should begin or end...
Nearly a century ago, the era of Reconstruction after the Civil War ended with the Compromise of 1877. Southern Democrats broke an electoral deadlock and allowed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to become President in exchange for removal of federal troops from the last two occupied Confederate states, Louisiana and South...
Bach never heard the entire Mass in his lifetime. It is said that he wrote it for God. It must not be easy to serve ambrosia to mere mortals, but yesterday the University Choir served God's feast with such humanity and compassion that it seemed like Peter preaching to...
Domestic squabbles are handled by members of the precinct's so-called Family Crisis Intervention Unit. The officers have been specially trained to subdue arguments with stratagems not always employed by men in blue: consideration, understanding, compassion and gentleness. "I pick up things much quicker now than before," says...
Through his art Boll hopes to attain, as he describes the expression of one of his characters, "something between obsession and detachment, something magical." The magic succeeds for heartening reasons. Boll puts narrative above experimentation. His "neorealism" cares more for compassion than savage attack. His moral vision deals with the...