Word: compassioner
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Beckett's message must be picked up in fragments, like shards around a ruin. He is an elegiac host at civilization's wake, taking for his text Cyril Connolly's "It is closing time in the gardens of the West. From now on an artist will be...
But Holden is not a rebel, though he is usually called that. He longs to do good in a dream world. When he broods about dirty words on the walls where little children can see them, or feels compassion for a prostitute, he is not protesting against "the system" or...
The title story is linked to the original. Oedipus at Colonos, mostly through the image of an old. maimed man living in the care of his daughter. A disabling illness has put the father in a wheelchair-embittered, suspicious, and nursing a hatred for his schoolteacher wife, who contemptuously doles...
Into the deep, expectant silence of the courtroom. Eichmann could have dropped a single grace note of compassion. Eichmann declined the opportunity. No, it was not pity, he shrugged; it was just a matter of bureaucratic efficiency.
Ingenious plans, flowing out of the American sense of compassion and justice, seem certain to spread in the U.S., probably holding the expansion of Government-run medicine to the role of filling in a dignified way the needs of those who are not otherwise covered. The A.M.A. will undoubtedly continue...