Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! A son of the Ould Sod cuts 'through the Irish mist that envelops his boyhood village as he sets out for a metropolis in an alien land. Playwright Brian Friel tells his tale with invention and compassion.
"I'll tell you what will happen if the Republican candidate is elected," Bobby Kennedy told the kids as he stumped California with Democratic Governor Pat Brown. "School on Saturday. More homework." His pitch to adults was just as tongue-in-cheeky: "Are you so devoid of compassion that...
Commendably, the book never tries to glamorize the war. The pictures of Hiroshima, the faces of Hitler and Goebbels, the stacks of dead at the Gusen concentration camp in Austria, are reminder enough that it was a war in which compassion and decency lay among the victims.
Before 40, one adds and feeds to gorge the ego; after 40, one subtracts and simplifies to slim the soul. With the final image of one's existence even faintly in view, the self seems pettier and the words "service," "love of others," "compassion" not only creep into the...
The CORE side, too, had its dissension, though of a more responsible kind. "The slogan 'Black power' is misleading," said James Farmer, CORE'S former national director. "The program needs much refinement and understanding of the subtleties. It should not be antiwhite; it should not be black...