Word: patheticism
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Magruder ended up lumping all lawbreakers together. By that way of thinking, Jesus and Jimmy Hoffa are two of a kind. He has never examined the possibility that sometimes there is no way to test the constitutionality of a law except to disobey it. You could say that however pathetic...
The gift is delivered, politely declined, but left behind anyway. The teacher tries not to look at the envelope containing the money, and suddenly lowers his face into his slightly trem bling hands. In this one motion, Ozu transforms a figure of faintly pathetic fun into a truly tragic individual...
Professor Derrick Bell's letter in May 21st Crimson is as ignorant as it is pathetic. Its ignorance is manifold: First, none of my comments and analysis on the dysfunctional aspects of the black separatist lifestyle have ever denied that this behavior was due in part to white racist patterns...
The pathetic feature of Prof. Bell's letter centers on his extraordinary effort to portray himself as a model black faculty member at my expense. This tactic is so cheap that it warrants little comment, save that is is the stock-in-trade of those intellectually and academically dubious. Indeed...
What will we remember about the Watergate Spring? Banner newspaper headlines daily, introducing new charges and personalities into the scandal. Another maudlin television speech from behind Presidential Seal. John Mitchell, once stern-faced on the ramparts, the hero of Mayday 1971, reduced to a petty criminal, a hang-dog and...