Word: patheticism
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Undaunted by his demise, Purnell's reverent followers to this day keep his shrunken body embalmed within the 130-acre colony where he reigned as King Ben of the House of David. But immortality has proved equally elusive for the faithful, and death has succeeded, where scandal and scoffery...
It hadn't. Salesman was never meant to be a documentary, and its X-ray examination of a man who is going under has kept it from becoming a period piece. Willy Loman, the salesman whose soul is as worn as his heels from his mindless pursuit of the...
All of a Tremble. Moran undoubtedly gives too much clinical detail about the pathetic decrepitude of Churchill's last years. The decline became noticeable in 1947, when, wrote Moran, Churchill seemed to be "living in the past and impatient of change. I could see then that he was sliding...
Sir: I suppose Dallas [April 15] is doomed to be the national whipping boy for a great many more years; it makes it doubly hard on thousands of Dallasites who loved and honored President Kennedy, and whose sense of impotent frustration is made almost unbearable by being lumped as one...
Speculative Intelligence.Steiner's thesis, presented in language that Existentialist Author Simone de Beauvoir calls in her introduction "neither pathetic nor indignant but with a calculated coolness," is that there should have been a lot more revolts like that. "Certainly," Steiner writes, "there was a share of cowardice in the...