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Word: compassionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost every politician in Washington last week qualified, in a strictly myopic sense, as "forward-looking." All eyes were fixed on the coming presidential campaign, to the neglect of a pile of pressing U.S. problems. In Congress, with two-thirds of the session already frittered away, Republicans and Democrats scarcely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Myopic Forward Look | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

Manhattan cops showed no compassion for Irish-born Actor Edward Mulhare, Rex Harrison's successor as the tweedy Professor Higgins in long-running My Fair Lady. Thrice in the same day, twice in the same spot, traffic patrolmen hung $15 tickets on Mulhare's white Dodge convertible for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 25, 1960 | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

The Dark Night. Griffin began his masquerade with the feeling that as a Southern white, he lacked compassion for the Negro, as well as a true understanding of the Negro's lot. His four-week journey strengthened both of these impressions. "I had no idea what they have to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Black like Me | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Once he emerged from obscurity, Chessman inevitably became a symbolic cause for opponents of capital punishment (see box), all the more so because he was not convicted of killing anybody. French Singer Georgie Vienette, official of an anti-capital-punishment organization, traveled from Paris to Governor Brown's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: The Chessman Affair | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

The Good Soup (adapted from the French of Felicien Marceau by Garson Kanin) constitutes, even to the form it takes, the reminiscences of a coldly successful French cocotte. Ruth Gordon, as the middle-aged Marie-Paule, unfolds them to a Monte Carlo croupier, while Diane Cilento acts out Marie-Paule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Mar. 14, 1960 | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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