Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. Northerners and Southerners are treated with equal insight and compassion in this vast exploration of Civil War writings.
Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. Northerners and Southerners are treated with equal insight and compassion in this vast exploration of Civil War writings.
Most of the pieces are not stories at all but evocative, friezelike sketches that try to catch a country scene or a moment of action. In The First Thorn the author catches a whole life in a few pages. The impulsive daughter of a rich landowner revels in the secure...
Plain Jewel Casket. Placed almost directly in the center of bustling, industrial Coventry, the new cathedral makes no attempt at a dramatic façade. Its massive pink brick walls form a squat, solid fortress; its only spire is a relatively small, openwork metal fleche, topped by a painfully distorted...
Lincoln's Birthday to argue that the Great Emancipator never meant to free the slaves ("The black men for whom he felt compassion but not respect have won the victory that Lincoln intended as a safeguard for the white man's civilization").