Word: compassioner
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Citation: "Forces that bring about change in the world are not all of dramatic quality nor of hurricane strength. The power of gentle influences-of compassion, the ideal of universal brotherhood, and integrity-is great and enduring . . ."
Suitably depressed by this, we go on to read in What Have I Done? about an invasion of Earth by a strange emotionless race from outer space. These visitors would much prefer to take over in the manner of Communists, craftily and without violence. They get the lowly manager of...
He is no Savonarola, fanatic and intolerant. Like most honest men, he is torn with doubts. Only too easily he can see his opponents' point of view. He is a man moved by compassion, who desires only justice and love. It sounds inadequate. In politics he is often oversimple...
Gossip in Good Taste. The ablest U.S. disciple of Henry James and Edith Wharton in many a year is a 34-year-old Manhattan lawyer named Louis Auchincloss. His special world is inhabited by New York's oldest and richest families. He writes as an insider, and his tools...
The movie also goes beneath the surface of Germany in the throes of imminent defeat. It contrasts the motives of Hero Werner ("Fighting against my people now is fighting for them") and a tough Wehrmacht sergeant (Hans Christian Blech) who works for the Americans "because you're winning the...