Word: compassions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know what I have done, and your honor knows what I have done . . . Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass. I found myself on a path that had not been intended for me by my parents or my principles or by my own ethical instincts. It has led me to this courtroom...
...Intrusion. In the show are illuminated manuscripts from the 8th century to about 1510. A German chronicle about events from the creation of the world to the death of Charlemagne includes an illustration of a giant Nimrod directing the construction of the Tower of Babel. Even in the compass of a page, Nimrod stands huge and commanding beside the rising tower. In the magnificent Book of Hours painted for Catherine of Cleves about 1440, there is a wildly imaginative image of the Mouth of Hell-three gaping bestial jaws flanked by towers, with sinners and demons scrambling about...
...journalist for 52 years, during all of that time a relentlessly conscientious critic of the powerful. In 1952, after 30 years of writing for such newspapers as the New York Post, the New York Star, and P.M., Stone found himself without a job when the New York Daily Compass ran out of money. During Joe McCarthy's heyday, no one was hiring left-wing journalists. And by that time, Stone's leftist reputation was well-known; he was barred (and he still is) from the National Press Club in Washington for inviting a black jurist to lunch there once...
...necessity as much as by principle to adopt the style of operation he would follow for 18 years. Because he felt, as he later wrote, that "a radical publication in the atmosphere of 1953 could only grow slowly anyway," he recruited readers from old P.M. and New York Compass subscription lists rather than attempt to mount an advertising campaign. Stone said in 1971 that he had figured only the paper's quality could sustain it, so he adopted a sober typography and straightforward tone. After eight cautious printers refused to help Stone publish his newsletter, he found...
...brief compass the author manages to bring off a remarkable range of scenes and situations, from academic Cambridge to the black underbelly of Roxbury (where Ken teaches awhile) to an orgy involving the apple pickers, a family Civil War sword and a death by drowning. Under the black comic claptrap in Black Conceit is a deeply felt, uncompromising book about an idealist's disappointment that human nature does not prove perfectible, that human decency, liberally applied, cannot suspend the law of the jungle. "We go on making choices, after the original helplessness," Coffin reflects, "and ultimately it becomes...