Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kit and Holly are two ends of a parenthesis around emptiness. They play at love-as if re-enacting the lyrics of some Hit Parade ballad-but remain remote from each other. Talking about their eventual capture, Kit is most concerned about whether he will still be alive enough, after...
Both the narrator and his character Fogel are isolated shards laboring under the illusion that they are wholly formed vessels. But what could well have been an academic exercise is redeemed by compassion and craft. It makes for a pathetic but telling tale.
Just as there is a better side of Harvard, so too is there cause for optimism in a world filled with visible evil. There has been plenty of destruction and hatred in the world in recent years, but there have also been uncounted acts of love and compassion and the...
Presidential boomlets bubbled all across this vast landscape: "Can Percy make it? ... Is Connally finished, I hope, and Teddy Kennedy too? ... Does Rockefeller have any chance?" We need someone better, they often said. Who has the special intelligence and compassion and energy to rise above all the others?
Yet what begins in seedy depression evolves into the story of an extraordinary friendship. In addition to the comfort of the bottle, Mrs. Kavanagh had Mrs. Biddulph, a regular drinking buddy whenever she was not serving short sentences for shoplifiting. The two women were different but complementary. Mrs Kavanagh was...