Word: compassioner
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JUBB, by Keith Waterhouse. Through the weird alchemy of talent and restraint, British Novelist Waterhouse (Billy Liar) turns the story of a lonely voyeur into a novel with both compassion and comedy.
> Life itself survives its detractors: "I think of some plumber who, waked by the rain, will smile at a vision of the world in which all the drains are miraculously cleaned and free . . . I think that the rain will wake some old lady, who will wonder if she has left...
Stray Dog, made in 1949 by Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa, is a less expert thriller but a deeper movie than his recent High and Low. Both are cops-and-robbers chase films, starring Toshiro Mifune. But the older work, aglow with zest and freshness, displays abundantly two qualities of Kurosawa...
Though few recognized it at the time, it is increasingly apparent that the U.S. lost one of its best novelists when Edward Lewis Wallant died 15 months ago at the age of 36. His career was astonishing in several ways, the first of these being simply that each of his...
The book sears the mind; for a time, until the pain clears at the end, compassion becomes an agony of mocking laughter.