Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Horn's contempt is matched by compassion for the plight of the Filipino people. To them, independence is a "bright bauble, merely a gaudy word filled with vague but glorious implications." It is foisted upon them by politicians who themselves doubt its advisability. Should the Filipinos still want...
The Picture has many excellent, many not so excellent details, and will doubtless accent for millions the virtues of neighborly compassion. Fundamentally there is just one thing wrong with it. When an organist draws on the full resources of his instrument, as have Messrs. Capra & Riskin in invoking almost every...
In some places he encountered tepidity, mediocrity, downright corruption. The much-touristed monastery at Himi was particularly disenchanting: the food and water were noisome, ferocious dogs snarled (chained) in the courtyard, inestimable works of art disintegrated in the corridors, the abbot was a fool for such gadgets as bicycle bells...
devotes two shyly ironic chapters. Once, in shocked compassion, he gave a prostitute $15 to take the night off from her dreadful trade. In no time at all she turned up at the same bar with another man. As a young doctor his thoroughness drove patients out of their wits...
How fares it with thee, under the new protection of the Herrenvolk, with all their culture and compassion?