Word: compassioner
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The critics were more than kind. "Extraordinarily powerful and moving," one wrote. Another praised it as being "in the pictorial language of a 20th Century painter who is aghast at man's inhumanity to man." Lebrun's technique is clearly 20th Century, since it derives from Picasso'...
Arms are necessary to defend the free world, but arms alone are not enough. Hunger and hopelessness cannot be beaten with bullets and bombs; knowledge and skill, applied with understanding and compassion, are weapons we must use without stint if we are to win through . . .
Shocked by the accusation, blocked by his stammer from denying it, Billy can only strike at Claggart, with a blow that kills him. At the subsequent court-martial, the Captain is agonized between his duty to "war's child," the Act of Mutiny, and his compassion for what might...
Two of the events of the year were verse plays good enough to become reading hits as well as stage successes. T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party was a sophisticated, impeccably literate lesson in the need for understanding and faith in human relationships. Its sale of more than...
Odets temporizes as well as blunders. Beset by the problem of having to make the play run till 11 o'clock and of wanting to make it run till June, he stages a double retreat from life into show business, filling out the play with colorful backstage detail, phonying...