Word: compassioner
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Open the Gates. Suppose a truly Christ-like figure were to appear in a hellish Malayan prison camp such as Panchor. The thought has never for a moment occurred to Chaplain Choyce. He is known to the officers and men as "the Padre with-the Modern Approach." .Bustling with professional...
Seaton's story of two sergeants is also neatly designed to serve his other purposes, and in the main it serves them well: Clift is a good-hearted young Midwesterner who approaches the Germans with naive friendliness, and Douglas is a roughneck who loathes them with a bitterness stored...
As a boy, in the early 13th Century, Peter Nolasque astonished his parents by coming home half-naked after giving away his clothes to the poor. Later, his compassion was stirred by the plight of his era's D.P.s-the thousands of religious prisoners languishing in dungeons and torture chambers...
"Among those designated by the law of the church as unworthy of ecclesiastical burial are all public and evident sinners. But the church decrees that each case be studied carefully for the slightest circumstance which can be interpreted in favor of the sinner. To condemn this merciful outlook is to...
What keeps the whole collection from descending to the merely pathological is an undercurrent of compassion and a ruthless economy of phrase that never slashes when it can slice and never slices when it can probe. None of the stories has a surplus word or a spare character. In every...