Word: patheticism
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That accumulating impression, though false, is what takes such a toll of social faith. The abuse of trust has become so commonplace that one must wonder whether society's very capacity to believe is not being gradually undermined. It has taken a drubbing in recent decades. Watergate yesterday, Abscam...
Today, the ramshackle Art Deco buildings are a pathetic reminder of its grand past. But SBDO has targetted the Concourse as a top priority revitalization project. If the project succeeds, the Grand Concourse may regain some of its old status, and its prosperity may once again spill into its side...
Credit the Cannes moguls for one thing. They know when to drop a cold potato. Except for The Apple, an Israeli version of The Wiz, and a pathetic promotion for Can't Stop the Music, there was no mention of disco at all.
Maybe that's why Bary Gottesman '82 of Birmingham, Mich., has been a Tiger loyalist for as long as he can remember. "I stood by them while they were really pathetic," he said, referring to the gory years of the early 70s. But this year, maybe because they seemed so...
No word ever sums up an event, but "pathetic" does a pretty good job when applied to the first three quarters of the Klan rally. The end, though, the end was scary. Wilkinson led the crowd of 400 across the field to the cross and, cautioning spectators to stay out...