Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The hero of the play is a priest, a kind of angry young martyr of burning faith and compassion who deliberately pins the yellow Star of David to his cassock and eventually goes to his death in the gas chambers. Father Riccardo Fontana (Jeremy Brett) is a Jesuit serving with...
Character & Compassion. U.S. headquarters of the Rhodes scholarship program, Swarthmore is a mother lode of university presidents, among them California's Clark Kerr ('32) and Cornell's James Perkins ('34). Few colleges claim more names in Who's Who; few boast alumni so diversely successful...
Of this year's 280 freshmen, 84% came from the upper fifth of their high school classes, half had college board aptitude scores of 700 or above (tops: 800), 33 had National Merit scholarships. Going beyond test scores, Swarthmore also demands character, asking applicants such offbeat interview questions as...
For a time, in the "giant hothouse" of the Mediterranean coast, Maria's feelings seem about to thaw. Contempt for the old man gives way to a reluctant compassion; a friendship with four vacationing children restores for a while the "miraculous gift of liveliness." But feeling exacts a price...
Even the most devoted Harvard fan could not have felt a twinge of compassion for the bumbling Green, who lost their eleventh straight game of the year.