Word: patheticism
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Most of the gossip concerns Piet Hanema, redhaired, stocky, 35-year-old father of two girls, housebuilder and restorer, a man "in love with snug, right-angled things." He is at once the sturdiest and the most pathetic character in Couples, a quasi-Christian and would-be family pillar who...
The play is intended as a parable, a fable, perhaps, of man trying to escape death, fearing it, moving always ahead of it in panic: foolish as he tries to escape, even more foolish as he tries to rationalize his behavior ultimately pathetic as he tries to brave it out...
At the same time. McGill is keenly antagonistic to Southern "liberals" who have continued to compromise their integrity on the race issue. A favorite target is Senator William Fulbright, whom McGill calls "a pathetic sort of character with a great liberal reputation."
This Smurtz is specifically a walking directorial comment, carrying a special and limited message: behind these three acts of comic and pathetic folly are the forces of materialism and cultural prostitution. Shuman does his turn admirably. Looking for all the world like an afternoon at the Broadway Super-Market, he...
Some of the blame for the production rests on Miss Horne herself, for she brought along as conductor her husband, Henry Lewis, whose contribution to the musical world may be generously dismissed as pathetic. Maestro Lewis knows a few tricks of the trade: he understands how to keep the beat...