Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The reign in Spain, postulates the author, is "the cult of virility," and woman's fate is to be "enslaved and betrayed." On the reader's acceptance of this arch axiom teeters this over-suave tale. Its stagy business, and that of the Duchess of Combon de Triton...
No one doubts Johnson's political skill, only his will to use it with courage and compassion. This will, which was not tested in the soggy, debilitating campaign, must be shown in the next two weeks, when he selects his Cabinet, and in the next two months, when he gives...
"Walter Jenkins has worked with me faithfully for 25 years," it said. "No man I know has given more personal dedication, devotion and tireless labor. Until late yesterday, no information or report of any kind to me has ever raised a question with respect to his personal conduct." While expressing...
The long-suffering Cliffies who must trudge up the sealed staircase of Lamont clearly have no conception of what they are missing. Those staircases are by far the best-ventilated areas in the building. Were the complainers allowed to visit other parts of the library, they might well decide that...
Yet Lowell's grim landscape is relieved by people, people hallowed by compassion. Lowell's compassion has been tested. Great chunks of his life have been spent in misery and in mental asylums (an experience he has duly and dispassionately recorded in a poem). Now, for the first...