Word: compassioner
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But the two artists take entirely different approaches to their work. Broderson, who learned much from painting abstractions -"surfaces, various ways of using paint and the like"-starts a picture with only the vaguest idea in mind, lets it evolve on the canvas, a characteristic of action painters. Landau'...
Hull at first coldly visualized Eichmann "with a rope around his neck," and although now "God has given me a slight feeling of compassion," the preacher still feels that Eichmann had a fair trial and ought to hang for his crimes. "I'm not interested in his body," he...
Behind this curious process is a man once dreaded by U.S. business as a wild-eyed radical-thundering John L. Lewis, who at 82 still bosses the United Mine Workers union despite his innocuous-sounding title of president emeritus. For all his deep compassion for his miners, Lewis long ago...
Although this sounds very much like Hemingway's "grace under pressure," there is a vast difference between the two writers. Hemingway's winners took nothing, but he was for the winner; Williams' special compassion is for "the people who are not meant to win," the lost, the...
At one point Lewis notes that "the most effective tools of the anthropologist are sympathy and compassion for the people he studies." Indeed, it was a mean feat to establish a rapport strong enough to permit the frankness and depth of the interviews. At the same time, he claimed that...