Word: patheticism
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It seems to me a terrible shame and a disgrace that at a University such as Harvard where a minority presence has just in the last 20 years begun to develop in number proportionate to Ine greater population, organizations like the Black Students Association should, instead of receiving support and...
It is a pathetic and disorienting contradiction for Black students like Timothy Wilkins and also Anthony Ball of the Third World Students Alliance to ask others (whites)to generate resources to sustain their parochial preferences. If such Black students entertain any serious intention of aiding resolution of the crisis of...
The interplay between the two women is the play's mainspring. Ivey bubbles with crude gaiety in her effort to be liked. Harris finds pathetic dignity in an emotional loss that makes her physically ill. The supporting cast is also adept, notably George N. Martin as Harris' stolid, stubborn husband...
It is a pathetic irony that Hughes sought refuge in one of the nation's least populous states only to find it too crowded and dangerous (he attempted bribery to stop nuclear testing in Nevada). It is a further mockery by fate that this man who was once given a...
TO THIS END, John Hurt, as Winston, is also marvelous. Previously John Merrick in The Elephant Manand the fool in Olivier's King Lear. Hurt is the archetypal common man, his face a veritable roadmap of toil and suffering. His love scenes with the fresh-faced Suzanna Hamilton (Julia) are...