Word: compassioner
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Down in the harsh bottom land of Crooked Creek, N.C., the sharecropping Negroes grub and grovel in feudal hardship, sustained only by a Bible-quoting parson and their own passive resistance to death, famine and flood - the blind resilience peculiar to those with no hope to abandon except that of...
Yet for my money Cradle Song is still a perfect gem of a play. The Sierras have used very few words from the dramatic alphabet, but with them they have managed to say a great many things about human nature. Indeed, the irrepressibility of human nature--of personality, of emotions...
Take away unhappy childhoods and a seething contempt for the old hometown and many a U.S. writer might never have set pen to paper. Still, rebels like Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Dreiser were moved at least as much by compassion for their Midwestern farmers and townsfolk as they...
Compounded of despair and loneliness, this is the kind of mental ballast that is inevitably tied down by chains of cynicism. Rays of compassion in poems and plays notwithstanding, Williams cannot hold back part of the contempt he feels for man and his role on earth. In Carrousel Tune it...
THE TORTURED EARTH, by Gert Ledig (219 pp.; Henry Regnery; $3.75), is a fearful book about men whose substance has become nothing but flesh and fear. A German battalion is before Leningrad, and this is its obituary. The major in command, learning that his wife and child have been killed...