Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Not long ago, in company with several others, I made a project site visit to a great Southern university. During the course of that visit we were told about a man on their wards who had been hopelessly unconscious for more than a year. He got pneumonia. The question was...
What is perhaps unsatisfactory and bloodless in Wilson is not so much the usual charge that he "hates people"; if he has defects, they are of the mind rather than the heart. He lacks the philosophic gravitas that his theme calls for. Perhaps he would have summoned more compassion for...
Miss Russell's performance re-shapes the play, turning it from a somewhat diffuse arial inspection of the whole group to a study in her absolutism. Our interest is forced to her as she accents the justified doubts of everyone she nears, creating and defending a world in which she...
> M by John Sack (New American Library, $4.50), a racy and vibrant chronicle of an American infantry company's preparation for combat and its baptism of fire in Viet Nam; and NO PLACE TO DIE by Hugh Mulligan (Morrow, $5.95), a catalogue of the many different varieties of fighting...
Styron's book is spoken by Nat as he lies in jail, beaten, chained, freezing, starving, and waiting to be hanged. The progression of time from the start to the end of the novel is short--it covers a few passing moments with Gray in jail, at the trial, and...