Word: patheticism
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Most of those who deliberately seek adventure have their moments of selfcriticism. For all his enthusiasm, Alaska's Bishop Gordon sometimes wonders whether "the really heroic people are not the ones who travel 10,000 miles by dog sled, but those who stay 10,000 days in one place...
Director David Wheeler struggles manfully with all this and at least makes watching the play tolerable. But he can't supply suspense and emotion where they don't exist. His actors read the overly precious lines as realistically as possible, and the humorous scenes are more successful than the painfully...
PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. British Museum Curator George D. Painter concludes his rich biography of Marcel Proust in a second volume. Remembrance of Things Past is virtually required prior reading, but once that hurdle is out of the way, the reader is treated to a detailed...
The gift is the result of an eight-year study that explored the pathetic plight of the American musician. The average annual salary for musicians playing with the 25 major orchestras (defined as those with budgets over $250,000) is $5,267; for those with the 33 metropolitan orchestras (budgets...
Pathetic Absolution. Sherm also had standards, grandly banished any of those guilty of incurring his displeasure. At one time or another the banished list included Humphrey Bogart, who told Billingsley, "You stink," New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, who published an unflattering profile of W.W., Josephine Baker, who complained about slow...