Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game at work for all Americans forever. Industry leaders know this, and that's why they have put Generation X on the front burner of their corporate agendas. They know that Generation X is a lens through which to see the future of work, and can act as a compass to guide business leaders into that future. BRUCE TULGAN New Haven, Conn...
...hearts go out to her. Lieut. Flinn's behavior was not only shameful but, since she was a military officer, less than honorable as well. Marc was brought up to know right from wrong, and as parents we feel responsible for the loss of the moral compass he once had. It is our fervent hope he regains it, and we believe he will. PAUL ZIGO Neptune...
...step forward bravely and confess that his or her life hasn't turned out at all like expected. Our hearts will skip a beat as we wonder how our former classmate failed. The truth, of course, is that the only failure is the person who loses their inner moral compass, who gives up hope, who becomes part of the system instead of a voice urging--sometimes in the face of public opinion--to change it. It is of no use to profit in the world if we lose our soul...
...area of the brain that controls impulsive and irrational behavior. Addicts, in fact, display many of the symptoms shown by patients who have suffered strokes or injuries to the prefrontal cortex. Damage to this region, University of Iowa neurologist Antonio Damasio and his colleagues have demonstrated, destroys the emotional compass that controls behaviors the patient knows are unacceptable...
...great feat of Equus that, despite this horrifying premise, the play succeeds in forcing even the most confident judge of right and wrong, crime and punishment to hesitate on this last question. Written by playwright Peter Shaffer, Equus grabs hold of that mysterious pointer on the moral compass and sends it spinning out of control. In a welcome if somewhat disconcerting departure from the tidy morality tales so often dished out on stage, the production of Equus performed last weekend at the Loeb Ex baffled, bewildered, but ultimately satisfied by feeding that questioning voice within...