Word: compassioner
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Just before dawn in Peiping's model prison a policewoman called to Yoshiko Kawashima through the barred opening of her cell. But Yoshiko slept soundly. Her cell mate, Mrs. Li, a middle-aged opium smuggler, shook her. Said Mrs. Li in great compassion: "Get up, foolish-elder brother."*
Pinings. But beneath the smooth, light surfaces of these stories there is a highly moral awareness of the inadequacies of contemporary life and the yearnings in every man for something better. When mocking the plight of a shopkeeper sentimentalist whose notions of marriage have been shaped by Romeo and Juliet...
The Long Holiday has none of the passionate bitterness of E. E. Cummings' The Enormous Room (best of World War I's prisoner accounts), none of that book's fierce compassion and detailed hatred for fellow captives. Ambrière remembers enough kindly German acts (though there...
. . . Congratulations on a very timely and significant cover story [TIME, Dec. 29]. What you have said about the inadequacy of modern art because of its conspicuous lack of faith or tradition could readily be applied to all the arts and to almost every phase of modern life. ... It is unfortunate...
Shoeshine (Italian). A swift and deeply moving film which went far beyond most works of "social protest" in compassion, moral sensitiveness and tragic understanding (TIME, Sept. 8).