Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Of personal relationships, she said, "If we pay attention enough, compassion blooms. If you understand a person, compassion logically follows."
Brooks' different routines all fall into a coherent pattern. Each of the characters he assumes is a charlatan, a famous "celebrity" whose every move is dishonest and phony. Yet there is honesty in the dishonesty. The roles are forced on the Brooksian characters by their society; inevitably the "celebrities" haplessly...
The reportage of construction workers savaging students is an indelible segment of war film. Its hasty sketches of street debate tell more about polarized America than a thousand editorials. Polemicists boom at one another, scoring in a game with no referees. Full of heat, devoid of compassion, they become like...
Pamela Hansford Johnson, in real life the wife of C.P. Snow, can hardly be described as an old boy. Still, she has contrived a remarkably deft version of a peculiarly masculine genre. Downs Park is a prep school-a staging area from which very little boys can go on to...
In one way or another, both Ginsberg and Blake reached the mental resolution to involve themselves in the controversies of their times. More remarkably, both managed to maintain a love of humanity and compassion for the suffering of others that Eliot, Pound, and countless other intellectuals abandoned along the way...