Word: compassioner
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The art of Durer is by no means without emotion, but emotion only in the highest sense of the word, a deeply felt compassion without recourse to sentimentality. Busch-Reisinger, these days, is a good place to rediscover the difference between pathos and bathos in the arts, as well as...
The methodical Germans gave Laika a properly Wagnerian title-die Himmels-hündin, the She-Hound of Heaven-and drew a moral from her flight. "For a few days, the world is again united," intoned the Stuttgarter Zeitung. "For a few days, black and white, democrats and communists, republicans...
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs accentuates a problem visible already in William Inge's overly celebrated Picnic: it is hard to be interesting about dull, ordinary people, even if you characterize them with compassion. Picnic, of course, nearly conquered the problem by being about sex. But if...
Now 32 and divorced (because her husband, like her father before him, began directing her musical career), Ruth Slenczynska is in the midst of a powerful comeback. After one false start, she returned to concertizing six years ago, has since played more than 600 concerts in Europe and the U.S...
Studio One: Psychiatric gimmicks have become such glib clichés on TV, as in most modern fiction, that writers are too often exposed with" their own craft ebbing. Last week The Deaf Heart performed the rare feat of tackling a psychiatric subject with freshness and a driving sense of...