Word: thoughtfullness
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Brown had wanted to enter straight out of San Francisco's St. Ignatius College Preparatory in 1955, but his mother wanted him to finish college first. Bernice Brown has had a considerable influence on her son. Thoughtful and self-contained, she had the drive to finish college by the...
Each of the Richardsons is a thoughtful, intelligent person, and all are trying, in one way or another, to answer the basic question of how to live. They find an answer, although not a dramatic one, one that allows them to preserve their own calm without ignoring the powerful evils...
The Slightest Distance is a first novel, and a good one. But Bromell should go on to do better work. As with many things that are apprehended "like that", that click in your mind, the book can be disappointing to analyze. It should be read through, one story at a...
At Seal Harbor, he awaited news of his political fate with equanimity. "It makes no difference to me whichever way it breaks," he told friends as Ford pondered his choice. "If the call comes, fine. I'll do my best. If it doesn't, so be it." When...
Porterfield is a critic and an experienced journalist (until this year he was a senior editor of TIME). His questions are thoughtful, if overlong, and the literary format works reasonably well. It allows Cavett to describe with amiable condescension his boyhood in Nebraska (his parents were both teachers), and his...