Word: patheticism
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1)I think the use by faculty of ethnic principles of group segmentation-which is what a Jewish faculty group, Irish faculty group, Negro faculty group, etc, amount to-a sad and pathetic event, especially in Harvard University. It can only do harm to the intellectual and academic life of...
Heath is certain to hear a good deal more criticism. Back in Britain, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, whose Labor government banned arms sales to South Africa in 1964, seemed to be setting the stage for a major political contest on the issue. Speaking in Norwich, Wilson labeled his successor...
As interpreted by Polanski and his fellow adapter, Critic Kenneth Tynan, those characters are a radical departure from tradition. "Usually," says Polanski, "Macbeth is played as an unpleasant bearded chap, Lady Macbeth as a nagging bitch-and both are middle-aged." By contrast, Polanski has given the roles to attractive...
In Missisippi Mermaid Truffaut once again explores the symbiotic relationship between love and death. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a plantation owner on the island of Reunion who sends for a mail-order bride (Catherine Deneuve), only to discover that the bride intends to take his money and possibly his life...
Confession has enough individual merits to redeem its overall flaws. Though their film lacks the compact literacy of The Prisoner, Costa-Gavras and his Z squad (Screenwriter Jorge Semprun and Director of Photography Raoul Coutard) are too subtle and ingenious to make anything conspicuously bad. The brutal indifference of lower...