Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir: The holocaust in Nigeria [Jan. 26], with its 2,000,000 dead, is testimony to the white Christian dominance of world affairs. The Africans have been subject to white colonial dominance for centuries. When they were finally granted independence, they were ill prepared for it. The so-called civilized...
During the chaotic days of Biafra's collapse and surrender, many nations and international organizations moved hastily in an effort to repair the damage and help the victims. In Washington, for example, President Nixon used the White House hot line twice last week to talk to Britain's...
Times and critical tenets are changing, though. Aesop's ant is no longer quite so honored, his grasshopper no longer quite so despised. Play has ceased to be such a dirty word. The wise and serious artist is more and more free of the burden of having to sound...
The second half of the book is presented as Charles' posthumously published novel, called The New Satyricon. It is a fragmentary assault on modern society that surrealizes many of the events and cultural characteristics that Author Mitchell has previously related with a measure of reserved compassion. It stars a...
In his left Hand was a Crocodile-bound Edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Dropping from his Right was a golden Sling, in whose Pouch rested a Bronze-studded, Morocco-bound Copy of Samuelson's Economics. Gazing down with Compassion at the charging, wildly braying, thundering Hordes, a...