Word: patheticism
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Rage & Reason. The children make pathetic mistakes. "Whose name begins with L?" a teacher asks in kindly New Yorkese. "Mine," comes the answer in a soft Virginia drawl. The boy, aged nine, is named Earl. Yet by now the kids are scrawling their names in script, and one teacher has...
Given the quality of the documentary sequences, it would have been nearly impossible for Jacopetti not to have made an interesting movie out of them. Almost all of them are bizarre or shocking or pathetic in themselves. Those sections which fall within the normal range of experience are made to...
Jacopetti has done a beautiful job of finding these films and arranging and editing them for the maximum ironic effect. His purpose is to show that human beings are cruel, stupid and pathetic; he succeeds, at least, in showing that they can be.
Now the Administration, through Assistant Secretary of the Interior John A. Carver, has announced its support of legislation designed to compensate the Seneca Nation for the loss of its land. The bill, which would set up a fund to "improve the economic, social and educational conditions" of the Seneca, is...
Arranged for a pathetic teen-age girl's whining voice, the song that is now Number One in the land is all about a lovely young lady who is delighted over the severe depression being experienced by a girl named Judy who has only recently lost her boyfriend. Judy apparently...