Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The memory of Big Daddy as played by Burl Ives both on Broadway and in the adulterated movie version is ineradicable, and we are not likely to see it bettered. Fred Gwynne, whose long-stage career since his undergraduate Harvard days has been largely devoted to comedy, here proves to...
Flanked by his wife Evita, a former actress whose compassion for the poor earned her an immense following, Perón enthralled the masses with his speeches from the balcony at the Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House. He followed up his pledges of social change with real reforms: the establishment...
The movie is a collaboration between the director and his wife Margarethe von Trotta, who worked on the screenplay and who appears as Elisabeth, a performance of wonderfully explicit compassion. Trotta is able to seize on a well-observed moment, embellish it and build on it without ever becoming extravagant...
As a victor, K'ang-hsi tempered justice with shrewd compassion and love of discrimination. He changed a horse thief's sentence from beheading to exile, since "the nation was at peace and horse theft was therefore not so serious as it would have been in time of...
A defendant's misguided loyalty seems a shaky basis for judicial compassion. That could be a rationale for going easy on most of the Watergate offenders. Kleindienst's offense was to testify-falsely-that the President had never applied any pressure on him in the celebrated ITT antitrust...