Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven Plays, by Bertolt Brecht. Roguish laughter, a cynic's sneer, tears of compassion, and a lacerated concern with the spectacle of man selling his fellow man keep exciting, if contradictory, company in the works of this remarkable playwright.
Rampant self-pity has produced an ethic of irresponsibility: "Blame it on God, the girls, on the government, on heredity, or on environment, on the parents, on the siblings, on the cold war, on the pressures toward conformity, on being unloved and unwanted. But don't blame it on...
Between the Lines. As a Post columnist since 1957, Shannon regarded Dwight Eisenhower's biggest failing as "not mobilizing the full energies of the American people in fighting the political cold war." But almost alone among the liberal pundits, he has never gone overboard for Kennedy. Even in a...
Aside from the figure of Christ, whose out-turned knees and outstretched hands register perfect compassion, the most striking of all Gislebertus' figures is that of Eve. Though delicate foliage shields part of her body, she is still a full-bodied nude. The deep relief-over five inches-makes...
When the U.S.S. General Pendleton sails from San Francisco in 1944, Raditzer is aboard. So is Charlie Stark, and the two men could hardly be more different. Charlie's family is sound, conventional, well to do. He has been turned down for combat duty and has in turn rejected...