Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But these quarrels with Climbing Willie's Ladder are fairly minor and best ignored. Alan Lebowitz has had the chutzpah to write a nice book about a not-so-nice world. And these days that takes not only chutzpah but some extraordinary compassion as well.
This is an enormous concept, and cannot be taken lightly. With all due respect to the Harvard faculty and its integrity, and with all due compassion for the consequences of allowing into its midst a colleague who proves unsuited to his new role, one must clearly and simply dissent from...
Sir: The manner and place of Bishop Pike's death are symbolic of his life. His motives and goals were the burning light of curiosity, the examination of origins, the checking of premises, the questioning of absolutes. His personal dilemmas closely paralleled those of a troubled society: rigorous thinking...
Again Johnson responded expansively, and this time included a note of compassion for his successor. "My father told me one time, when I was a little boy," Johnson remembered, "that I'd never know what it meant to be a father until I was a father. And one never...
From the first, it was clear that the true Met fan had to be a man of almost mystical forbearance, untrammeled optimism and infinite compassion for the inept. Born in 1962, when the National League expanded to ten clubs, the Mets promptly lost their first nine games. They finally won...