Word: patheticism
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Protestant Powerlessness. In Escape from Freedom (1941), his best-known book, Fromm traces the origin of this pathetic middle-class creature to Martin Luther. Putting Luther on the couch, Fromm concludes that Luther plunged modern man into despair. In a neat, if oversimplified analysis, Fromm argues that this Protestant feeling...
Sinclair's antagonist is Colonel Barrow, a nervous and insecure officer of university background who has been gazetted commanding officer of the Highland battalion over his less educated compatriot's head. John Mills, who always adds a superior performance to his acting credits, steals the show from Guinness as this...
The contrast between the two games was almost unbelievable. Against the Lions, Harvard could do nothing right. They sank a pathetic 17 of 62 field goal attempts and never once led the mediocre Lion quintet. But on Saturday the Crimson squad played perhaps its outstanding game of the season; they...
East Berlin resembled the weather-leaden grey skies, bone-chilling wind, a damp slurry of mud and snow. The city was dark, and the shops were sparsely stocked. Only sign of the holiday season was the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market) set up near the Sportsplatz. Here a seedy collection of carnival...
Poor Dmitry-it seemed about time to give up on him. The great Shostakovich, whose First and Fifth symphonies had alerted the world to the genius of Russia's "20th century Beethoven." had for years been a musical bureaucrat, cranking out empty banalities in the name of "people'...