Word: compassioner
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J. F. (for James Farl) Powers, 38, likes to explore a placid world that stirs with life only after some trifling event breaks up the humdrum of routine. It is the parochial world of pastors, curates and their parishioners. The mocked and pitied heroes of Powers' short stories are...
The man whose plight uncovers compassion in Bang the Drum Slowly is Catcher Bruce Pearson. He is a baseball and football tramp. His near illiteracy was no handicap at a Southern university, but with the Mammoths, one of the New York big league teams, he is strictly a marginal player...
Bruce is more victim than hero, the means whereby Pitcher Henry Wiggen, the narrator of Bang, can make his point that ballplayers belong to the fraternity of men. Bruce has Hodgkin's disease, and any moment may be his last. That is why Ace Pitcher Wiggen makes it part...
Still, in the Tyrones' journey into night, O'Neill has judged humanity and found beneath all its guilt the absolution of love. As the most personal and last published of the author's plays, Long Day's Journey Into Night is fitting tribute to his craft as a writer and...
...compares himself with Theodore Dreiser, but I don't think he's in Dreiser's league. He's as bad a writer as Dreiser, but he doesn't have the compassion that makes Dreiser's bad writing important." In Manhattan, Author Farrell, 51, compassionately turned the other cheek: "Algren's attacked me on the Roman Catholic Church, on splitting infinitives, and now on Dreiser, but I have no desire to attack...