Word: patheticism
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In other circumstances the man in the wheelchair would have seemed a pathetic figure. He had been at Buchenwald concentration camp. His face was pale and craggy, his left arm a stump, his right leg missing. Sick and shattered, he looked older than his 43 years. But in Bayreuth Circuit...
Neither selfless love nor old-fashioned romantic love gets much of a chance in these stories. Their themes can be banal, as in He, which has a pathetic and overworked English shrew driving her husband into the arms of another woman but wanting him back at any cost. Sometimes the...
Vice President Richard Nixon's espousal of a policy of calculated coolness toward Latin American strongmen got a warm and friendly reading even in the Dominican Republic, where Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo runs the oldest (28 years) and tightest dictatorship in the non-Communist world. Keeping its usual firm hammerlock...
Delusion of Exile. It is a tribute to the quality of Bastide's writing, which comes through finely in translation, that from two such wisps he is able to evoke the living heart of Paris. His is not the grand or the obvious Paris of the boulevards or of...
Older critics reacted predictably, crying out against "lacquered monkeys" and their "apelike mumblings," and a right-wing youth leader stormed: "This proves the Japanese should not have freedom!" But the little girls seemed not to hear, and the ,, cascades of streamers and toilet paper did not stop. Brooded Sociologist Hideo...