Word: patheticism
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Following the great wind, says a survivor, came "waves as big as mountains, roaring like a thousand thunderclaps." Huts were washed away "like weeds." In a pathetic attempt to keep from being swept away, people clasped hands to form circles, with their children in the middle. There were few trees...
Although she is an accomplished pianist. Germaine has no profound love for music -or for anything else-and it is merely a whim that brings her to a clattering New Zealand town to study with a master who is himself an exile there. She meets him: "'Give me some...
A few of the play's fine moments--funny, poignant, or pathetic--are captured, but they are few, and there is none of the slowly raging conflict that made Kazan's movie version of the play a classic.
The Witness (CBS) is one of the more exciting shows to appear on TV in a long time. Packaged by David Susskind, it effectively utilizes a formula first laid out by more modest shows like Day in Court and The Verdict Is Yours: the simulated hearing or trial. The first...
This pathetic revolution against revolution is doomed, of course, and Seryozha, betrayed by his girl, winds up in the same labor camp as Dr. Rabinovich. But he devoutly keeps his faith in "The Aim." Each day Seryozha insists that he and his friends pool the rations, only to divide the...