Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE BOYS IN THE BAND, an overtly homosexual play, contains both caustic comedy and humane drama; it leavens biting wit and cruel exposures with compassion. Robert Moore's precise staging and the "boys'" concise ensemble acting contribute to a neatly orchestrated production.
Compassion v. Coercion. Beyond the war, the prevailing ethics of the Class of '68 place justice above the need for order, social welfare above creature comforts, compassion above coercion, people above institutions. In talking about these values, students sometimes act as if they had discovered justice and love. They also...
Evangelist. Back in Washington he made time with the representatives of the National Federation of Italian-American Organizations (Paesano Frank Sinatra is also a Humphrey booster) and got long and loud applause from a U.S. Chamber of Commerce group of 1,200. He criticized "unbelievably high deficits" in the federal...
Some time after President Johnson said that he would not run again, Robert McNamara, new president of the World Bank, fell into conversation with aides of Robert Kennedy. How might the former Defense Secretary help the campaign? Since he was barred from politics by the bank's charter, McNamara...
Even Robert McNamara has an eye on a new New Frontier and, in a statement filmed for TV campaign plugs last week, dropped his normally cool demeanor to give an uncharacteristically effusive appraisal of Bobby's role as a J.F.K. foreign policy adviser, particularly during the Cuban missile crisis...