Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, his forbidding public image makes Couve's personality a political issue in France. Though many Frenchmen recognize that his remoteness has been an effective diplomatic ploy, they worry that he may lack the capacity for compassion that a Premier in France should have at present. After all, his...
High-blown Jumble. Nor does Humphrey appear likely to change his campaign style. "It is a proud thing to be an American," Humphrey said in Philadelphia, but the pride was somehow lost in a jumble of high-blown rhetoric. With frequent references to the Depression, the Vice President, who styles...
JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS and meanwhile, in Manhattan, four performers render his songs with both passion and compassion.
It must interest itself, he once wrote, "not in the mere learning of good and evil but in the practice of reasonably mature individual and community living." This comes about, he added, "not through the application of doctrine, but through the application of reason and humanity, maturely, to the complex...
Perhaps the pervasive influence of Freudianism has been felt most perversely in the genre of the thriller. Time was when characters were simply good or bad, threatening or threatened. But nowadays it is difficult to tell a real villain from a societal victim; too often the bewildered reader is caught...