Word: compassioner
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Estes Kefauver was one of a long and honorable line of United States Senators who have defended the individual fearlessly and with compassion. Like George Norris and Robert M. LaFollette, whose worthy successor he was, Kefauver emerged from a gentle strain of native-bred populism, rooted in an ideal of...
Word from Bill. As Ward's own crowded hour came to an end, many Englishmen began to feel a twinge of compassion for the talented, if twisted, master of the revels. As the osteopath lay unconscious, red-haired Julie Gulliver, a 23-year-old singer who had been his...
Several minor characters give excellent performances. Robert Blackburn as Mickey, a prize fighter who loved and left Ella, is marvelously cocky, and provides most of the few light moments of the evening. Jim Spruill, as a boyhood friend of Jim, is successful in conveying the differences between the races--the...
Then began a prolonged display of myopic ineptitude on the part of Los Angeles officialdom. With the newspapers playing the story for laughs-it was a case of "abducktion," one paper said-the machinery of justice clanked ponderously into motion. Officials decided that Lopez and his friends would be tried...
Fowles got the idea for his plot from a true incident in 1957 when a young Englishman kidnaped a girl and kept her prisoner for 105 days before she was rescued. This kind of perversion is not generally the stuff of high tragedy, but Fowles has made it so. Clegg...