Word: patheticism
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For the dramatic adaptation of One Flow Over the Cuckoo's Nest, comparison with the novel is unavoidable. The play holds its own as entertainment but it loses much of the pathos, horror, physical breadth and psychological depth of the novel. In the play, George Welbes's McMurphy is the...
The Tigers have scored only six time in Ivy competition, and have given up 16 goals, a pathetic performance considering the fact that of the 13 and 20 goals Dartmouth and Columbia have allowed respectively, almost half were scored by Harvard. Despite holding Penn to a scoreless halftime tie, the...
Sally is in fact the only figure in the film with any self-consciousness, and as a result she is the only character who is emotionally vulnerable and humanly pathetic. In her absence the scenes become like Candid Camera vignettes--not just in terms of devastatingly mundane dialogue, seemingly always...
Haven't we had enough ot this kind of psychoanalytic overkill? It seems to be inspired by the pathetic illusion that we can disarm society's malefactors by denying their membership in the human race. This is immensely comforting, but in dehumanizing Hitler, we also dehumanize his crimes...
Uganda celebrated the tenth anniversary of its independence from Britain last week. It was hardly an occasion for rejoicing. Under its unpredictable military ruler, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, the country has drifted closer and closer to chaos. It was an especially bitter holiday for Uganda's 10...