Word: patheticism
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Pathos is not usually associated with the Mexican-American, i.e. Chicano in the era of Radical and Ethnic Chic. Tragedy, oppression and broken promises, yes. But this week, in the Letters to the Editor column of Tuesday, (Dec. 14) a disappointing sense of the pathetic seemed uniquely our own.
Re: your story on Howard Hughes [Dec. 13]. It is ironic that a man capable of building and directing a billion-dollar conglomerate was the architect of such a pathetic paranoid prison for himself. However, his Christian aides resemble piranhas more than Christians.
Although both impressions and sales figures differ among sellers, many feel that the cults current in the '60s have disappeared. "I would say that there has been a wide broadening of interests over the last five years," Robert Hale, general manager for the Hathaway House Bookshop in Wellesley, says, "Students...
He was the world's ultimate enigma?a man so secretive, so hidden from view that no outsider could say with certainty even whether he was alive, much less how he looked or behaved. He was one of the world's richest, most imperious, capricious, outrageous, eccentric and powerful men...
As in One Hundred Years, a kernel of reality lies in the Patriarch's story. Garcia Marquez says that he learned everything he could about actual dictators, then forgot it all in order to write the novel. The Patriarch ages, contemptibly deaf and senile, gradually cut off from authority by...