Word: samaritan
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...advancement. Now men are often doing the moving. Russ Ringl is giving up his position as vice president of human resources for Playboy in Chicago to follow his wife Karen to Los Angeles, where she has become vice president for nursing services at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan. Finding a satisfying job is proving a slow process, he says, though he remains optimistic. Still, he concedes, "if I was going to have a mid-life crisis, this is the time...
...ease the evangelists' economic burdens, a group called Samaritan's Purse, operated by Graham's son Franklin, allotted two shirts, a tie, a pair of socks and tennis shoes for each male attendee (only 500 women participated). "I've been praying for some shoes," said one delighted visitor. Seven tons of donated clothing were also provided to be taken home to wives and children...
...remind Simon of her father tend to become trophies, bagged in the act of looking foolish. A free-love guru known as Jones volunteers to help young Kate shed her virginity. She agrees in principle but falls asleep before the sexual samaritan finishes an overripe lecture on fecundity in nature. Simon's frankness is never gratuitous. A description of her own mistakes combines arm's-length wit with sobering historical detail: "My first was a New Jersey abortion, the result of drinking deeply of synthetic gin and romping with an anonymous beauty over house roofs and down some stairs...
Sometime during all of our lives, we will see incidents similar to this that will challenge our instincts to take a Samaritan course of action. I am writing this letter to express my hope that we will be well enough educated to respond to these instincts in a more potent way than those handful of bystanders on the street the other day. Withheld Upon Request
...matter. Neither parable applies to you. You were born a good Samaritan and prodigality has never been one of your problems. Frankly, I do not know a work of moral fiction that could improve your character, for it has always seemed to your mother and me (admittedly prejudiced but not blind) that your character never needed much improving. I have not known anyone more fairminded, more considerate, more able to swallow disappointment. Not from me did you get these things. Why should I expect to give you something special...