Word: compassioner
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Busch uses the same narrative style adopted by John Hersey in Hiroshima: he follows one man or a family through their ordeal. But Two Minutes to Noon has little of the quiet compassion that made Hersey's book so compelling. In fact, from time to time Busch seems to...
Gangster Manqué. When Miller keeps his voice (and his vice) down to a low howl, the book is good. Gentle accounts of his tailor father and his simple-minded sister are touched with skill, restraint and humor. More than the ranting, they help explain the near-psychopathic, angry compassion...
He schools the totok irascibly and well. Ives shows him selfless compassion in a colony of lepers, superstitious fear and grief in a plague-ridden village that must be dynamited hut by hut, aristocratic pride and dignity in a top-hatted native chief who tries to save his rat-ridden...
Beautiful Way. In the beginning, she claimed, it was not compassion that compelled her to draw what she did. It was rather that, while she found the German middle class "pedantic and small," she found in the workers' way of life "greatness and scope ... I simply found it beautiful...
But his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize was eloquent: "Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up...