Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a nation where politicians affect superior airs, Shastri is modest and retiring. Among a people given to rhetoric and ritual, he is concrete and practical. In a land reverencing charismatic leadership and far-reaching intellect, he looks like a messenger boy and disparages his own brain. Above all, he...
He called upon the college generation to bring the qualities of resolution and compassion to bear on the challenge of shaping "the great world society which is the ultimate purpose of peace."
The translation from page to stage owes much to George Hamlin, who directed the Loeb version; but it owes more to Daniel Seltzer, who acted Lear. Those of us who saw Seltzer as Falstaff and Faustus expected that he could meet the test of King Lear, and he does. In...
Misplaced Piety. Barbizon painters yearned for compassion in an era of harsh industrialization. Later they fell into disfavor for supposed sentimentality, but now scholars have resurrected them from the charge of Victorian piety and have shown that their passion for nature was closer to the scientific quests of Darwin than...
The translation from page to stage owes much to George Hamlin, who directed the Loeb version; but it owes more to Daniel Seltzer, who acted Lear. Those of us who saw Seltzer as Falstaff and Faustus expected that he could meet the test of King Lear, and he does. In...