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Word: compassionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Press service also demands a philosophical disposition, for its low pay scale and tightwad expense accounts are legendary. During a national political convention in Chicago, longtime Bureaus Supervisor L. B. ("Save a Nickel") Mickel cut down on expense accounts so sharply that General News Manager Earl Johnson told his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First Half-Century | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Detroit Tintype. Faulkner's advice was as starkly frank as his methods. He cautioned one student writer not to slip into a grey flannel suit and measure out his life in installment plans. "Do you want a piece of tin from Detroit and a $30,000 pile of bricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Resist the Mass | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

It took a new breed of adventurer-explorer to bring the world to Middle Africa and to unfold its wonders for the world -men prompted not by simple greed but by human compassion and scientific curiosity, drawn onward by the land itself. There was the discoverer of Victoria Falls, David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle Africa: Cradle of Tomorrow | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

In some raffish first-act comedy, and very fitfully thereafter, when Wendy Hiller and Franchot Tone give urgency to O'Neill's clouded scenes, or give a face to his sense of lostness, A Moon stirs to life. But mostly it lies dead; and something a little too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

Just as the staff is beginning to awaken the children from the nightmare of violence, past and present, the narrator's twin brother Nicky arrives. Nicky is handsome, hypnotic and unregenerate, a nostalgic Nazi still capable of strutting his party uniform in the midst of the Berlin airlift. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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