Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were no skyrocket bursts of great, fresh genius, and among the novelists many an old hand had shown a faltering touch. But 1949's books, fiction and nonfiction, accurately and often brilliantly reflected the state of man and his world. They were books colored by personal questioning, confusion...
Through a shrewd winnowing of repetitious and overwritten pieces, Editor Goodman manages to show Hearn at his best, but still does not succeed in lifting him into the first rank of19th Century U.S. writers. Lafcadio Hearn's brightest virtues were the human compassion that sweetened all of his work...
Vittorini partially redeems all this by a quiet ending: Silvestro and his mother mutely discover their buoying devotion to each other. After all, she says shyly, "it makes one happy to talk to one's son, after 15 years . . ." And Silvestro, who has rediscovered compassion, thereby rediscovers man'...
Years later she wondered why "the mother who taught me what I know of tenderness and love and compassion taught me also the bleak rituals of keeping Negroes in their place." To think out and try to solve that problem, she has written Killers of the Dream, a red-hot...
Devil in the Flesh. French wisdom and compassion lavished on a story of illicit wartime love (TIME, March 21).