Word: compassioner
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SWANS ON AN AUTUMN RIVER, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. One of Britain's master short-storytellers shows that she has lost neither her deft cruelty nor her wise compassion in picturing human fallibility.
For Carnovsky's Lear is an old man who recognizes his age too late. His rages are desperate graspings for the authority he can no longer wield over his daughters or his kingdom. When he finally realizes his true state, when he sees "how wretches feel," he is calm; but...
Already long famous as one of Britain's most versatile and gifted writers (her Lolly Willowes was the first selection of the fledgling Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926), Author Warner turned to writing short stories exclusively in 1954. This baker's dozen of new stories shows...
Sir: Your Essay did a thorough job of covering a touchy subject which most people would rather not even think about, let alone discuss. But more important, you did not stop at a mere examination of the topic. What impressed me was your smashingly direct last paragraph. It seems to...
Judith is the misleading Old Testament title of a film that ought to be called Sophia Loren's Israel. Based on a story by Lawrence Durrell, it is set in Palestine in 1948, just before the departure of the British gives the go sign to encircling Arab armies. A...