Word: compassioner
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The right-wing critique, shorn of its Goldwaterite absurdities, takes issue with none of Humphrey's compassion but very definitely with his propensity for converting compassion into instant action. Humphrey's book virtually oscillates between sighs of concern and ambitious plans for new Federal commissions, and one needn't embrace...
The Minnesota Senator well realizes, and doesn't regret, the haziness of his ideology: "(Liberalism) ... is basically an attitude toward life rather than a dogma--characterized by a warm heart, an open mind, and willing hands." He speaks of compassion far more than justice; he stresses understanding and deprecates revenge...
A suspicion of too-easy success attaches itself to the madhouse novel as to the war novel; there is never any basic question of viewpoint. War is indisputably hell; so is madness. The problem remaining is merely the relatively simple one of eloquence. But this first novel has a force...
A Mandate to Begin. The President spoke for 35 minutes, reading alternately from his text and from the Speech View prompters fastened to the podium at eye level. He urged Americans to "rededicate ourselves to keeping burning the golden torch of promise which John Kennedy set aflame." He reiterated the...
De Gaulle's three volumes of war time memoirs, published for the first time in their entirety, are a rung-by-rung account of that ascent. There were no mysteries about it, and De Gaulle makes none. He has been accused of melodrama, egocentricity and arrogance, but his memoirs...