Word: compassioner
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To write well about death is never easy and always dangerous. Words tend to become solemn; compassion blends with sentimental pity; and the reader may easily find himself stirred by nothing stronger than acute discomfort. Tolstoy managed superbly in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Flaubert in Madame Bovary. This...
Even then he was a strange mixture of rabid rebel and good companion-the original Angry Young Man, full of both compassion and wit. The war with the Kaiser was none of his concern: his battle was with the thoughtless world of privilege that allowed his father to choke to...
Expecting to take in some $5,000,000, Oberammergau's humble townsfolk are selling everything from machine-carved angels to toilet privileges. Life-sized wooden saints go for $1,000. Beggars, who used to count on the Crucifixion scene to cause spectators to empty their pockets in compassion, have...
Laura is not the street's only eccentric. There is Big Foot, a solemn and terrifying prankster who expresses his view of an unwashed world by getting a job driving a bus, hauling his passengers five miles beyond the city, and then forcing them to get out and bathe...
"Cleanse and bless the brotherhood which they sought to build among their fellow laborers," prayed Cathedral Dean Francis B. Sayre Jr. in accepting the windows, "that it may be worthy of their compassion and sacrifice."