Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Observing that there are 33 million people in the U.S. who now have some college education, Donovan said that there has been "a vast diffusion of education and influence, and a multiplication of decision-making places throughout our society. Yet at the same time, the growing complexity of the problems...
To many more, he came across as a man of infinite compassion, a leader with unique empathy for the poor, the hungry, the minorities, and all those whom he termed the "suffering children of the world." As Attorney General, his brusqueness often offended high-level politicians and bureaucrats-yet he...
Design Poetry. In Skinny Poem, Lou Lipsitz reflects the anxiety and desperate compassion of many of today's youth:
Why this despair, this sense of resignation? Part of the answer undoubtedly lies in Robert Kennedy's ineffable ability to make his cohorts--professors, lawyers, entertainers, sportsmen, and kids--feel he was not merely their boss or leader or public advocate, but their true friend. Most of his professional associates...
Yet Robert Kennedy was really a good deal more than a healthy spectator sport, more than a major reformist influence in American society, more than a sympathetic, concerned friend, even more than what Jack Paar called "the most beautiful man I ever knew." In a tragic historical sense, Robert Kennedy...