Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the Viet Nam book for people who do not want to read about Viet Nam-the lip-service hawks and doves who don't know Quang Tri from An Giang and don't care how the war ends as long as it is soon. Fire in...
Maddox still believes-much to the embarrassment of many of his fellow Southern Baptists-in the right to segregate. "The Bible teaches freedom of choice," Maddox insists privately. "Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?" Any racism in his...
Guts. Amid all the talk of replacing Eagleton, he kept insisting that he would bow out if McGovern wanted him to but that McGovern was still behind him. At one time Eagleton promised to telephone his doctors and ask them if they could make a statement about his health (he...
Such a failure seems almost beyond belief, or human compassion. Recent reviews of 125 cases by the PHS'S Center for Disease Control in Atlanta found that half had syphilitic heart valve damage. Twenty-eight had died of cardiovascular or central nervous system problems that were complications of syphilis...
"Everybody dies," says a hustler in Body and Soul, one of the most memorable of all films about boxing. In Fat City, one of the least memorable, we watch a stifling process of human degradation symbolized by the desperate, random violence of tank-town prizefighting. Fat City is about a...