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Comic drama in Goldsmith's time resembled in some respects the American theatre today: it was awful, it was in the hands of the panderers and the dutchers. The reason for this, Goldsmith thought, was that its practitioners failed to distinguish tragedy from comedy, and produced mainly works which fell...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: She Stoops To Conquer | 12/13/1962 | See Source »

Paced by the sensational squidging of Bob Whiteside, the Gargoyle Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Society (GUTS) stomped a pathetic Yale Daily News aggregation. Saturday, 32-10. The victory extends the GUTS winning streak to ten matches after the initial defeat at the fingertips of Oxford.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUTS Humbles Inept Yale Daily | 11/26/1962 | See Source »

This pathetic situation would not exist today had the President acted courageously, and staged a rapid, forceful and decisive invasion of Cuba, presenting Russia with a fait accompli.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 2, 1962 | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

Tchin-Tchin, which Sidney Michaels adapted from a French play by François Billetdoux, is a wry, tender, amusing, pathetic fable about a wildly incompatible man and woman who come together to pool their emotional losses. Caesario Grimaldi (Anthony Quinn) is an Italian-American contractor, as coarse and gravelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Holy Waifs | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

But there are occasional glimpses of their pathetic longing for a better life. For all his disgust, the lodger finds it difficult to leave this house, and so, implies Hanley. would anybody. For this is no unique madhouse; as Author Hanley sees it, it is the human condition.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with the Damned | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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