Word: patheticism
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The claim is eloquent and sincere. But next to Graham Greene's The Power and The Glory, Under the Volcano is far too hermetic and selfabsorbed. To be sure, its theme is the pathetic death of a talented alcoholic who discovers that his tragedy lay in failing to realize...
In Searches & Seizures, a collection of three novellas, each Elkin hero obeys his needs with results that vary from the bitterly funny to the preposterous and pathetic. Alexander Main of The Bail-bondsman is a kind of clawlike extension of the law's arm-a bondsman who pursues his...
CORNELL-YALE--The Big Red is still smarting from the slapping around Harvard gave Cornell last week. Yale clobbered a pathetic Columbia squad. Should be a match between two brutal ground attacks, for Cornell has the better defense and a quarterback named Allen. Cornell 28, Yale 21.
Henry James, for one, felt guilty all his life for not following up his radically abolitionist principles with action. He allowed his extraordinary recollective powers to be more evocative than explicit. He made the South something magnificent and swashbuckling in his mind, only to discover that it was a mere...
Speaking hours after Agnew resigned, NBC'S David Brinkley-long a favorite Agnew target-described Agnew returning to Baltimore as "a tragic and almost pathetic figure." A night later, CBS'S Eric Sevareid paraphrased an English proverb to suggest that Agnew's sins dimmed in comparison with...