Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unbelievably, his pace increases day after day, and last week topped all the tumbling, tempestuous weeks that had gone before. It began with a compass-setting foreign-policy speech at an Associated Press lunch in Manhattan. Using a prompting device that enabled him to read without seeming to (see diagram, next page), the President eloquently replied to Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who recently insisted that U.S. policies toward Communism in general and Castro Communism in particular were based on "myths...
...story, of which he has written over a hundred. Some are merely slick or O. Henryish, but some, such as The Country Husband, The Death of Justina, Goodbye, My Brother, are as perfect as a short story can get, and have dimensions and echoes far beyond their relatively small compass...
...that gets into the vocabulary of painting ever gets out: realism in varieties from Social to Pop; expressionism in forms from New York abstract to the tough geometry of hard-edge painting; impressionism from still lifes to mental landscapes. Rather than prove that the wind blows strongest from any compass point, the Annual proves that it is rising everywhere. Through...
...freshman year is the one in which a Radcliffe student gets to know the University, sophomore year is the one in which she must get to know herself. "Sophomore year is a year without a compass," President Bunting says. "A girl has lost the bearings by which she was steering, and hasn't established new ones." If the choice of courses and a major is a difficult and important decision, the choice of values, friends, and even an identity is crucial...
...since World War II, and the more advanced electronic navigation devices that have recently come into use aboard high-speed aircraft. Mounted beneath the Alan's hull are four small pairs of sound projectors and receivers. A gyrocompass keeps them constantly aimed toward the cardinal points of the compass as powerful beams of sound are caromed off the ocean floor and picked up again...