Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The plot entangles the private and professional lives of seven women working at a place called Dreamland. Among them are Mickey, a gum-chewing spend-thrift running away from a sordid home, Yasumi, a loan shark who finally claws her way out of the business, and Yori, a weakling who...
Amirouche lived in the field with his guerrillas, seldom slept in one place for more than a few hours, eluded French patrols time and again with lightning mobility. As his legend grew, so did his delight in his own prowess. He affected strange headgear, often of black astrakhan, and gripped...
Christ appears rapt and detached. His four tormentors gather around him in seeming viciousness. But a closer look reveals that his assailants are gripped by compassion. Perhaps some of their ornaments are meant to symbolize their incipient conversion from tormentors to believers. For instance, one of the upper figures wears...
The wonder of this sordid and symbolic tale is that it is suffused with compassion, heightened by the remarkable music Alban Berg wrote for it. The score, set in the tilted frame of nontonality, is carefully cast in a variety of classical musical forms: suite, passacaglia, sonata, fanatasie and fugue...
The freshness and dancing vigor of the words is Playboy's only great distinction, except perhaps for a quality of tough-spirited, oddly joyous compassion--which amounts largely to the same thing. The plotting is tenuous, and the characters while vivid and attractive do not take up permanent residence in...