Word: patheticism
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In last week's episode, editor Raymond Mungo drafted a centerfold editorial proposing that the university stop giving credit for ROTC courses because they represented a form of indoctrination to a military set of values. The editorial asserted that "since its institution here [at B.U.] in 1919, ROTC has not...
Given the presence of a Cockney Casanova, Alfie's plot predictably unreels more like a score card than a scenario. Among the standard items is the eager middle-aged nymph (Shelley Winters) who entertains Alfie in a big bath tub. One of the more pathetic entries is the hen...
Sir: The half-outraged, half-defensive statement by self-described "gun fanatic" Charles A. Whitman, father of Mass Murderer Charles J. Whitman, that "I raised my boys to know how to handle guns" echoes the plaintive wail of another father, Willy Loman, protagonist of Death of a Salesman, who in...
It might be called Dorian Gray. It is true that Dorian Gray never grew old. His tragedy was that he never grew. Earthly immortality is a pathetic mirage. Time will not stop. In an attempt to stop it, one merely stunts one's self. The ultimate victims of the...
It was a grimly pathetic reassurance in the face of what happened at 2319 East 100th Street last week. In an incredible, nearly soundless orgy of mutilation and murder that took place in the early hours, a single male intruder herded together and murdered, one by one, with packinghouse precision...