Word: compassioner
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The Moviegoer, it seems, has a brilliant kid brother. Walker Percy's first novel, which won the National Book Award in 1962, tells the story of a likable young New Orleans stockbroker who escapes the meaninglessness of modern life by going to the movies. The Last Gentleman, his second...
Paul Scott, a literary agent turned writer, specializes in the novel of sensibility (The Bender; The Corrida at San Felhi). This one, set in India in 1942, tells of a brash, big-boned English girl with a rage to live and a notion that flouting convention is the way to...
Many doctors are talking of training more "paramedical" people who could handle administrative problems, take histories, and even, like Navy corpsmen, give shots and help in operating rooms. Computers are being used more widely to help in diagnosis, and Philco recently developed a "medi-chair" that can read a patient...
The letters to Faulkner's hometown newspaper, The Oxford Eagle, are set in the style of his later novels and make pleasurable reading. A letter about his dog, Pete, killed by a reckless driver, contains the kind of compassion we have come to expect from Faulkner:
The letters to Faulkner's hometown newspaper, The Oxford Eagle, are set in the style of his later novels and make pleasurable reading. A letter about his dog, Pete, killed by a reckless driver, contains the kind of compassion we have come to expect from Faulkner: