Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As riggers worked in a high wind to place the 13-ft.-high group on a temporary wooden base, it became clear that by social consciousness Epstein meant compassion. The central, seated figure, which Epstein calls "Fate itself," is a long-torsoed woman with high-cheeked, Slavic features, stretching forth...
The Dark Is Light Enough finds Christopher Fry occupied with the soberer side of life-or, at any rate, of language. Described as a "winter comedy" and set, during the 1848 Hungarian revolt, in an Austro-Hungarian country house, it uses the framework of costume drama to pursue philosophical truth...
In his column "Cincinnatus," Segal plays both big brother and conscience to the Past's readers. His mild, low-keyed column shuns gossip, rarely stirs up sensation, never thunders. Instead, he may tell of a child with cerebral palsy, the of a 90-year-old friend, the good work...
There has come to my attention a copy of a letter addressed to you from Herbert A. Philbrick, erstwhile informant for the FBI and currently cloak-and-dagger columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune Syndicate. . . The Philbrick letter, stylistically, appears to be irony, though with somewhat less deft a...
Russian-born Zoé Oldenbourg's complex tale of knights and knaves is packed with scenes of horror. Children are slaughtered, adolescent girls raped, women's breasts cut off, men's eyes torn out. But unlike most historical novelists, Author Oldenbourg does not indulge in bloodletting and...