Word: patheticism
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She was 30 when she died, an exhausted, mad mother of two, estranged from her poet husband, Ted Hughes. A typically American-looking blonde, she was much admired in English critical circles; half of literary London blamed itself for her death. Yet The Bell Jar, like the late poems, makes...
PERHAPS the encounter with the naked masturbator reveals more than the obvious elements of black humor. Certainly, it was a little frightening; officially so frightening, in fact, that the cops had to be called in, a fire drill held and all of Barnard Hall evacuated at 2 a.m. so that...
The family physician bucks the case to a psychosomaticist, who flounders in jargon. It takes a young Jesuit psychiatrist-priest, equally familiar with the uses of Librium and prayer, to understand that Regan suffers from old-fashioned possession by the devil. Sometimes known as Captain Howdy, he speaks through Regan...
These years of revolutionary activity, 1952 to 1959, culminating in the is land's liberation, clearly demonstrated the pathetic plight of Russia's influence in third world revolutions. In 1956 Khrushchev initiated the new Russian policy of peaceful coexistence with capitalist countries, especially America, and encouragement of the peaceful transfer...
The very facelessness of the Scandinavian and English cast lessens the film's power to shock. Scenes are shot from a vast emotional distance, as if Director Casper Wrede flinched at the pain of showing pain. In the suffocating grayness of the film, the personal dimensions of suffering tend...