Word: compassioner
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Raging Compassion. But as the Forum-Thaw exhibition shows, George Grosz did not stop growing in 1932. His nonsatirical pictures of the U.S. have the freshness of discovery, for Grosz was in fact discovering a new world. And as the second world war drew closer, his old ferocity returned in...
A character is seen with some compassion only when she feels as Miss McCarthy might feel; for instance, when Dottie Renfrew, a proper Bostonian, declares her love (on the eve of her marriage) for a no-account Village painter who deflowered her the year before.
At the sixth Station, the voice of Veronica offers "to wipe the sweat of those who carry the Cross." The band plays I Believe as a whole gallery of unfortunates rushes forth to beg compassion, among them a convict, an unwed mother ("Wipe my face, me who carries in my...
In his second book Grass has turned to another grotesque-a gawky adolescent named Joachim Mahlke who is afflicted by a quivering excrescence of flesh over his Adam's apple. But if Grass still views life largely as a kind of Gothic sideshow, he permits himself, as he did...
This preposterous attempt to make a hero of Stephen Ward fitted in with the scatterbrained, left-wing politics of most of the signers, Britain's Angry Middle-aged Men, who used him to demonstrate that the Establishment and British society in general are rotten. Amid all this sudden sympathy...