Word: patheticism
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The one new masterpiece (and I use the term advisedly) of the year is Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven. It did rather pathetic business at the Charles for several weeks, and unfortunately if you didn't see it there, you probably won't see it satisfactorily. It's a...
LAST WEEK the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club invited former President Richard M. Nixon to speak here next spring. Nixon, of course, has not made an appearance at an American college since his resignation under heavy fire in 1974. Since then he has mostly stayed within the confires of his San...
"I've got to find something. Otherwise I can't read." The girl turned to me, the next customer in line. But the old man would not leave. He just stood there holding his glasses. "What am I going to do? I can't possibly afford new glasses and all...
Some 35 years ago, Black Poet Langston Hughes bitterly warned: "Negroes, sweet and docile/ Meek, humble and kind: Beware the day they change their mind." They have changed their minds, with a vengeance, says Silberman. "After 350 years of fearing whites, black Americans have discovered that the fear runs the...
The abundance of talent in the supporting cast cannot make up for a weak Macheath or Jenny. Morton Pierce stands out as the eminently bribable police chief, a bald-headed buffoon; so does Kathryn Falk as Lucy Brown, his daughter and Macheath's other wife. Falk's delivery of the...