Word: patheticism
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YOU HAVE TO APPROACH a book on leadership by Richard Nixon with a healthy does of cynicism. It is absurd, if not pathetic that probably the most mortally decrepit U.S. President ever has judged himself fit to assess such 20th century leaders Churchill De Gaulle MacArthur or Chou En-Lai...
Still, there are psychological rewards. Total strangers who see Maciej driving his cab come up to him and congratulate him for not collaborating with the regime. Former colleagues who have stayed in journalism try to excuse themselves by saying that they are working to change the system from within. "It...
The melodrama in Frances Farmer's life was real; her tragedy was that she never got to play it onscreen. From the moment she hit Hollywood in 1935, barely 22 and with a natural blond beauty, Farmer determined to play by her own rules. She would adorn no mogul...
It is pathetic that the Administration would gladly pressure Israel by withholding aid, but backs off implementing a similar policy in so many other countries. Besides pursuing its business-as-usual policy in Central America, Washington also recently decided to life the grain embargo against the Soviet Union. The White...
SDS and much of the New Left did disintegrate into an unimaginative revolutionary mindset in the late Sixties. The Rothman-Lichter "authoritarian" model seems fairly appropriate when applied to the post-1967 years and the devolution of the Weathermen. The authors set out to explain what powered a movement, and...