Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flowers & Prayers. The French looked first. A few months after they had showered their U.S. liberators with flowers, they were praying for them to go home. Germans had reason to be grateful for the simple, human, unofficial compassion of thousands of G.I.s; but there had been rape, widespread looting and...
The Morning Catch. For 16 years, in his daily column, Courts Day by Day, quiet Jimmy (James A.) Jones has been looking at London's criminal small fry with just such romantic compassion. Last week his large, loyal following could get Courts Day by Day in book form, an...
Professional musicians and musicologists are still locked in hot debate about the musical origins of the spirituals and the manner of their creation. One simple fact is clear-they were created in direct answer to the Psalmist's question: How shall we sing the Lord's song in...
"Organized liberals and writers who are concerned about the South need to change their approach. . . . They should approach the South with compassion, not with a savage badgering.... We Southerners just don't take to that. ... The racial concepts and prejudices which the Southerner holds . . . cannot be changed by law...
Wrote bespectacled, courtly Ernest Betts (Daily Express), who can be as tough as molybdenum: "A great tragic performance. . . . She has an extraordinary range of expression-from bitter sophistication to tragic emotion, and again, to the softest compassion." Chimed the Daily Graphic's Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a...