Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since his major works are murals in Mexico, not even the 51 assembled pictures could give the dimensions of Orozco's power, bitterness and weight, or of the clumsiness, coarseness and obviousness that make him so controversial. One perceptive critic recently returned from looking at the frescoes has joined...
TIME stories, which bring all things and come in all sizes, should have a style to match their subject. Sometimes the news and the circumstances mold a story into the form of a novelette, especially when there is an edge of mystery and a gathering of men of wealth, women...
LOLITA, by Vladimir Nabokov. The year's most controversial novel and also, by all odds, the best written. Simply as the story of a perverted sexual adventure, it is shocking. As an exploration of the secret places of the heart, mind and spirit, ruled by terrible private devils, it...
Writer Le Chanois has found the best possible formula for quieting objections to his frankly polemic theme: natural childbirth. He creates a picture that is dramatically first-rate even without the birth scene, puts it together with a blend of personal compassion and cinematic skill. In the almost fable-simple...
And yet Maritain adds: "Deep beneath the anonymous American smile there is a feeling that is evangelical in origin-compassion for man, a desire to make life tolerable.''