Word: patheticism
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Old friends from Alexandria, Va., gave Gerald Ford a cartoon recently that showed a pathetic-looking John Q. Public handing the President a cracked and scarred world globe and ordering him: "Fix it!"
Pathetic Standoff. The militant left has carried civil disobedience one step further. Housing is short because of higher construction costs and tight credit, so radicals have led homeless squatters into whatever shelter is avail able. In one section of the city, 40 families raced to occupy brand-new housing already...
"It is perhaps appropriate for me to say very simply this," Nixon told 5000 supporters when he landed at El Toro Marine Air Base only hours after Gerald Ford became president. "Having completed one task does not mean that we will just sit and enjoy this marvelous California climate and...
Gregori Chukhrai, who directed the film, emphasizes the individual suffering of all the characters, gives a tragic portrait of a whole people whose lives are disrupted by war. Alyosha, whose naive heroism and perpetual optimism are particularly pathetic in light of his impending death, is an example of wasted potential...
Although Buddhist immolations in 1963 roused American opinion against Ngo Dinh Diem and in 1966 forced Thieu to promise elections, until recently the Buddhists had limited their anti-Thieu protests to pathetic little marches in downtown Saigon, in which they were outnumbered 10 to 1 by police. They have now...