Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really talking about peril," Kuriloff says in the living room of her Brentwood apartment. She is an intense, frail-looking, girlish woman of 39 who moves about when she speaks, dashing to the bookshelf to verify a remembered fragment of poetry, changing chairs to find one whose compass bearing on the conversation is exactly right. When she listens, she cocks her head, nods emphatically -"Yes, yes, yes!"-leans forward in sympathy, sits back in surprise and pleasure, claps her hands...
...compass and comprehend such a transformation is a huge undertaking, but last week New York's Metropolitan Museum proved it was equal to the task. It triumphantly opened a set of new galleries that allow the museum to display the full riches of its 19th century collection. Built with a $2.5 million gift from the late André Meyer, an investment banker and longtime trustee, the galleries supply more than half an acre of floor space, topped by a vast glass-gridded ceiling that extends, free of supports, over the whole area. The galleries are part...
...taxes. "What we need," he says, "is not the quick, easy fix but sacrificial and meaningful adjustments that will restore confidence in this country. To deal with our problems, we need a captain on the bridge of the ship of state who is not always looking at a political compass but who is following true north...