Word: patheticism
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By name and locale, Willowbrook State School seems a pleasant enough place: a teaching institution on a 400-acre bucolic tract on Staten Island in New York Harbor. Actually, Willowbrook, the world's largest institution for the mentally retarded, is a school in name only. It is instead a...
By comparison, the woes of the others seem somehow pathetic and finally enervating, partly because they are so deeply selfish. If nothing else, Miss Murdoch has pulled one new switch in this book by replacing the complacent American, so often a carefully drawn figure in British comedy, with a cast...
And we who breifly shut Harvard down in 1969 were not only enemies to be checked; we were also jokes, pathetic Luddites trying to smash the fabric of the new American order without money or power or management skills. Our day, like Pusey's, had passed, and the future belonged...
This institutionalization of imagination has its roots in most unpromising soil. Publicity releases quote Disney as saying, or rather getting the concept across, "I don't want the public to see the real world they live in while they're in the Park. I want them to feel they're...
Russell, "Harding's eroticism is naive and even pathetic as the quality of his mind peeps through the boudoir phrases. The letters, if they can be considered shocking-as some of them can -are more so because they were written by a President of the United States than through...