Word: compassionately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"There were also personal reasons," Acheson read on. "One must be true to the things by which one lives . . . The consequences of living with a decision which one knows has sprung from timidity and cowardice go to the roots of one's life . . . Mr. Hiss is in the greatest...
The world came fairly close to suicide in World War II. During the London blitz, Eliot spent two nights a week as a fire-watcher on the roof of his office building. From his perch above what he has often called the "unreal city," Eliot observed, with terror and compassion...
Down and Out has the engaging quality of utter candor. Most depression stories make dull reading today, but Orwell's has a mint freshness because his poverty, his sorry work mates, even the brain-deadening duties of his distasteful job were of vast interest to him. When the scene...