Word: patheticism
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Last week's first witness was L. Patrick Gray III, the former acting director of the FBI, who appeared a pathetic figure as he described how, in 26 years of service in the U.S. Navy, he had been taught to say "Aye, aye, sir." Gray was asked about his...
Squads of police have begun to comb the city to round up last-minute draftees. Those who can pay for freedom ($200 is the going rate) are released. Those who cannot end up in a muddy makeshift training ground at Prey Sar, a former prison camp. There a weeping new...
Phallic Women. Of the three authors, Horta is the most fervently feminist: "I am not for the emancipation of women, but for their liberation. Emancipation is only a legal term, only a political event. It is the pathetic attempt of women trying to be like men, to make it in...
As in the U.S., the steepest and most painful increases are coming in food. Britons are paying 30% more for fish and pork, and 40% more for "cheap" chuck steak. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson recently told a Labor Party meeting that his wife Mary was "almost in tears" as...
Besides their friendship with Clinton, the Sadistic Movie Producer (James Coburn), the six people he has invited for a week's cruise of the Mediterranean have other things in common: they are faintly pathetic has-beens and never-weres in the film business; each has his or her sordid...