Word: patheticism
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Womanologist & Mesmerist. His later life, as Biographer William Schack describes it, was a pathetic and half-demented tirade against the way the world had treated him. He was, after all, an "artist, author, composer, dramatist, globetrotter, improvisatore, womanologist, librettist, inventor, mesmerist." He had been, he told the world, the champion...
In Philadelphia, where he had gone to try to settle a dispute with local truckers, Teamsters' Boss Jimmy Hoffa munched a lettuce salad and talked about U.S. labor's troubles. Whatever Bobby Kennedy or anyone else may think about Hoffa's moral character, he possesses one of...
Claggart (played by Robert Ryan) himself cannot comprehend the spectacle before him; he forces himself to see evil in Billy. In a pathetic scene, he exhorts Squeak to portray Budd as a mutineer. Ryan plays the perfect villain; watching a whipping delights him to the point of ecstasy.
Harvard probably played its worst game of the season when it bowed to the Lions a month ago. Sinking a pathetic 17 of 62 field goal attempts, the Crimson still managed to stay in the game until the final minute of play when they blew several scoring opportunities and the...
Tough Trick. Adriana may be a stranger to U.S. and English audiences, but the opera is a repertory staple in Italy. Composer Cilèa (pronounced che-lay-ah) wrote it when he was 35, and it established his reputation. He coasted on it from its premiere in 1902 until...