Word: compassioner
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Rudolf Slansky, a tall, red-haired butcher's son from a village near Pilsen, was a devoted Communist. A member of the Czech party since he was 18, he made a fine hatchetman-unmoved by compassion, unhampered by principle, unburdened with personal loyalties. Unlike so many Czech politicos who...
To the troubled Protestant army chaplain, hard-bitten Major Kartuschke's bluster, meant only one thing-another German had chloroformed his conscience. In twelve hours, one of Major Kartuschke's prisoners-21-year-old Lance Corporal Fedor Baranowski-would be shot by a firing squad. Curiosity and compassion...
As a part-time novelist, Author Mathew, Roman Catholic archbishop and Apostolic Delegate for Eastern and Western British Africa, is less charitable than his fellow novelist, Cardinal Spellman (The Foundling). A 49-year-old Englishman who started out to be a Navy officer, he shows nearly as much contempt as...
Was Life So Nice? Roger Buliard found no "noble savages." The Eskimos revealed most of the standard human faults, plus a few special ones of their own, e.g., though Eskimos spoil their children, they sometimes commit infanticide. Buliard found them brave in the face of danger and stoic in the...
What worries Author Blanshard is "the Roman Catholic church-state, a unique blend of personal faith, human compassion, clerical exploitation, and submissive ignorance." He is not likely to convince anybody not already convinced. His claim that the church, in its long history, has often stood with undemocratic factions throughout the...