Word: patheticism
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Overburdened with social significance and sloppy syntax, Trap is chiefly notable for the appearance in a secondary role of onetime glamour girl Rita Hayworth. Rita, frequently cast opposite Ford since they co-starred in Gilda in 1946, plays a frowzy, pathetic old flame who knows the rackets but preserves all...
Fear of the opposite sex is also believed to be the cause of Lesbianism, which is far less visible but, according to many experts, no less widespread than male homosexuality-and far more readily tolerated. Both forms are essentially a case of arrested development, a failure of learning, a refusal...
Lack of procreation or of marriage vows is not the issue; even Roman Catholic authorities hold that an illicit hetero sexual affair has a degree of "authentication," while a homosexual relationship involves only "negation." Roman Catholic thought generally agrees that homosexuality is of and in itself wrong because, as New...
The final score was not an accurate indication of B.U.'s total superiority. The terriers had 44 shots on goal, but were repeatedly frustrated by the great saves of Crimson goalie Bill Fitzsimmons. Harvard got off only 10 shots, and half of them were just pathetic little dribblers.
As Leamas and Nan are escaping from East Germany, she asks him over and over again how he can just let people die. He says finally and desperately that it is so people like her can go on living their own ignorant, safe lives. When he is asked to give...